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@@ -13,22 +13,21 @@ correctly decompress the concatenation of two or more compressed files. The result is the concatenation of the corresponding decompressed data. Integrity of such concatenated compressed input is also verified. -The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term -archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder -availability: +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 lziprecover program can repair bit-flip errors + recovery means. The lziprecover program 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 detailed explanation of how it works, so that with the only - help of the lzip manual it would be possible for a digital - archaeologist to extract the data from a lzip file long after - quantum computers eventually render LZMA obsolete. + lzip manual provides the source code of a simple decompressor + along with a detailed explanation of how it works, so that with + the only help of the lzip manual it would be possible for a + digital archaeologist to extract the data from a lzip file long + after quantum computers eventually render LZMA obsolete. * Additionally the lzip reference implementation is copylefted, which guarantees that it will remain free forever. @@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ range encoding), and Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in LZMA). -Copyright (C) 2013-2017 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. |