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@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions. + Description Lunzip is a decompressor for the lzip format written in C. Its small size @@ -19,11 +21,10 @@ compressed format for Unix-like systems. The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability: - * The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data - recovery means. The program lziprecover can repair bit flip errors - (one of the most common forms of data corruption) in lzip files, and - provides data recovery capabilities, including error-checked merging - of damaged copies of a file. + * The program lziprecover can repair bit flip errors (one of the most + common forms of data corruption) in lzip files, and provides data + recovery capabilities, including error-checked merging of damaged + copies of a file. * The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The lzip manual provides the source code of a simple decompressor along with a @@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ compress the file. To activate it, specify the size of the output buffer with the option '--buffer-size' and lunzip will use the decompressed file as dictionary for distances beyond the buffer size. Of course, the larger the difference between the buffer size and the dictionary size, the -more accesses to disk are needed and the slower the decompression is. +more accesses to disc are needed and the slower the decompression is. This 'low memory' mode only works when decompressing to a regular file and is intended for systems without enough memory (RAM + swap) to keep the whole dictionary at once. It has been tested on a laptop with a 486 @@ -99,8 +100,11 @@ LANGUAGE NOTE: Uncompressed = not compressed = plain data; it may never have been compressed. Decompressed is used to refer to data which have undergone the process of decompression. +Lunzip uses Arg_parser for command-line argument parsing: +http://www.nongnu.org/arg-parser/arg_parser.html + -Copyright (C) 2010-2024 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright (C) 2010-2025 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute, and modify it. |