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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.