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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Description -Lzd is a simplified decompressor for lzip files with an educational +Lzd is a simplified decompressor for the lzip format with an educational purpose. Studying its source is a good first step to understand how lzip works. It is not safe to use lzd for any real work. @@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ 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 long-term data 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 @@ -29,8 +30,8 @@ into account both data integrity and decoder availability: extract the data from a lzip file long after quantum computers eventually render LZMA obsolete. - * Additionally lzip is copylefted, which guarantees that it will - remain free forever. + * Additionally the lzip reference implementation is copylefted, which + guarantees that it will remain free forever. A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with @@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ range encoding), and Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in LZMA). -Copyright (C) 2013, 2014 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright (C) 2013-2015 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. |