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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 07:48:58 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 07:48:58 +0000
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Lzip Manual
***********
-This manual is for Lzip (version 1.9, 17 January 2010).
+This manual is for Lzip (version 1.10, 5 April 2010).
* Menu:
@@ -68,11 +68,11 @@ multivolume compressed tar archives.
The amount of memory required for compression is about 5 MiB plus 1
or 2 times the dictionary size limit (1 if input file size is less than
dictionary size limit, else 2) plus 8 times the dictionary size really
-used. For decompression is a little more than the dictionary size really
-used. 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.
+used. For decompression it is a little more than the dictionary size
+really used. 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.
When decompressing, lzip attempts to guess the name for the
decompressed file from that of the compressed file as follows:
@@ -254,15 +254,15 @@ The format for running lzip is:
slower than `-1'. These options have no effect when decompressing.
Level Dictionary size Match length limit
- -1 1MiB 10 bytes
- -2 1MiB 12 bytes
- -3 1MiB 17 bytes
- -4 2MiB 26 bytes
- -5 4MiB 44 bytes
- -6 8MiB 80 bytes
- -7 16MiB 108 bytes
- -8 16MiB 163 bytes
- -9 32MiB 273 bytes
+ -1 1 MiB 10 bytes
+ -2 1.5 MiB 12 bytes
+ -3 2 MiB 17 bytes
+ -4 3 MiB 26 bytes
+ -5 4 MiB 44 bytes
+ -6 8 MiB 80 bytes
+ -7 16 MiB 108 bytes
+ -8 24 MiB 163 bytes
+ -9 32 MiB 273 bytes
`--fast'
`--best'
@@ -419,6 +419,12 @@ writes each member in its own .lz file. You can then use `lzip -t' to
test the integrity of the resulting files, and decompress those which
are undamaged.
+ Data from damaged members can be partially recovered writing it to
+stdout as shown in the following example (the resulting file may contain
+garbage data at the end):
+
+ lzip -cd rec00001file.lz > rec00001file
+
Lziprecover takes a single argument, the name of the damaged file,
and writes a number of files `rec00001file.lz', `rec00002file.lz', etc,
containing the extracted members. The output filenames are designed so
@@ -466,13 +472,13 @@ Concept Index

Tag Table:
Node: Top224
-Node: Introduction899
-Node: Algorithm4206
-Node: Invoking Lzip6432
-Node: File Format10779
-Node: Examples12733
-Node: Lziprecover14571
-Node: Problems15270
-Node: Concept Index15795
+Node: Introduction897
+Node: Algorithm4207
+Node: Invoking Lzip6433
+Node: File Format10780
+Node: Examples12734
+Node: Lziprecover14572
+Node: Problems15487
+Node: Concept Index16012

End Tag Table