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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2017-05-07 15:51:44 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2017-05-07 15:51:44 +0000
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Description
Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the
-one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip is about as fast as gzip, compresses most
-files more than bzip2, and is better than both from a data recovery
-perspective.
+one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0),
+or compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip -9). Decompression speed is
+intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2
+from a data recovery perspective.
The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder
@@ -16,11 +17,11 @@ availability:
merging of damaged copies of a file.
* The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The
- lzip manual provides the 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.
@@ -75,11 +76,11 @@ or more compressed files. The result is the concatenation of the
corresponding uncompressed files. Integrity testing of concatenated
compressed files is also supported.
-Lzip can produce multimember files and safely recover, with
-lziprecover, the undamaged members in case of file damage. Lzip can
-also split the compressed output in volumes of a given size, even when
-reading from standard input. This allows the direct creation of
-multivolume compressed tar archives.
+Lzip can produce multimember files, and lziprecover can safely recover
+the undamaged members in case of file damage. Lzip can also split the
+compressed output in volumes of a given size, even when reading from
+standard input. This allows the direct creation of multivolume
+compressed tar archives.
Lzip is able to compress and decompress streams of unlimited size by
automatically creating multimember output. The members so created are
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ range encoding), Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in
LZMA), and Julian Seward (for bzip2's CLI).
-Copyright (C) 2008-2016 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2008-2017 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute and modify it.