Adding upstream version 1.11.upstream/1.11

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index f0d0470..7c158d9 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ gzip or bzip2. Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses
 better than bzip2, which makes it well suited for software distribution
 and data archiving.
 
+Lziprecover is a data recovery tool for lzip compressed files able to
+repair slightly damaged files, recover badly damaged files from two or
+more copies, and extract undamaged members from multi-member files.
+
 Lzip replaces every file given in the command line with a compressed
 version of itself, with the name "original_name.lz". Each compressed
 file has the same modification date, permissions, and, when possible,
@@ -30,9 +34,9 @@ standard input. This allows the direct creation of multivolume
 compressed tar archives.
 
 Lzip will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size
-without exceeding the given limit. It is important to appreciate that
-the decompression memory requirement is affected at compression time by
-the choice of dictionary size limit.
+without exceeding the given limit. Keep in mind that the decompression
+memory requirement is affected at compression time by the choice of
+dictionary size limit.
 
 As a self-check for your protection, lzip stores in the member trailer
 the 32-bit CRC of the original data and the size of the original data,
@@ -46,14 +50,18 @@ something is wrong. It can't help you recover the original uncompressed
 data.
 
 Lzip implements a simplified version of the LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov
-chain-Algorithm) algorithm. The original LZMA algorithm was designed by
-Igor Pavlov.
+chain-Algorithm) algorithm. The high compression of LZMA comes from
+combining two basic, well-proven compression ideas: sliding dictionaries
+(LZ77/78) and markov models (the thing used by every compression
+algorithm that uses a range encoder or similar order-0 entropy coder as
+its last stage) with segregation of contexts according to what the bits
+are used for.
 
-The high compression of LZMA comes from combining two basic, well-proven
-compression ideas: sliding dictionaries (LZ77/78) and markov models (the
-thing used by every compression algorithm that uses a range encoder or
-similar order-0 entropy coder as its last stage) with segregation of
-contexts according to what the bits are used for.
+The ideas embodied in lzip are due to (at least) the following people:
+Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrey Markov (for
+the definition of Markov chains), G.N.N. Martin (for the definition of
+range encoding), Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in
+LZMA), and Julian Seward (for bzip2's CLI and the idea of unzcrash).
 
 
 Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
@@ -62,5 +70,5 @@ This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
 distribute and modify it.
 
 The file Makefile.in is a data file used by configure to produce the
-Makefile. It has the same copyright owner and permissions that this
-file.
+Makefile. It has the same copyright owner and permissions that configure
+itself.