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Description
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.
+purpose. Studying its source code is a good first step to understand how
+lzip works. Lzd is written in C++.
-The source of lzd is used in the lzip manual as a reference decompressor in
-the description of the lzip file format. Reading the lzip manual will help
-you understand the source. Lzd is compliant with the lzip specification; it
-verifies the 3 integrity factors.
+The source code of lzd is used in the lzip manual as a reference
+decompressor in the description of the lzip file format. Reading the lzip
+manual will help you understand the source code. Lzd is compliant with the
+lzip specification; it verifies the 3 integrity factors.
-The source of lzd is also used as a reference in the description of the
+The source code of lzd is also used as a reference in the description of the
media type 'application/lzip'.
See http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-diaz-lzip
@@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a corrupt byte near
the beginning is a thing of the past.
The ideas embodied in lzd are due to (at least) the following people:
-Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrey Markov (for the
+Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrei Markov (for the
definition of Markov chains), G.N.N. Martin (for the definition of range
encoding), and Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in LZMA).
-Copyright (C) 2013-2021 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2013-2022 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute, and modify it.