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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.