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+2012-01-05 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
+
+ * Version 1.13-rc2 released.
+ * Compression time of option '-0' has been reduced by 2%.
+ * Reorganization of the compression code.
+ * Small change in '--help' output and man page.
+ * Changed quote characters in messages as advised by GNU Standards.
+
2011-11-12 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
* Version 1.13-rc1 released.
@@ -8,58 +16,58 @@
2011-04-30 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
* Version 1.12 released.
- * main.cc: Added new option `-F, --recompress'.
+ * main.cc: Added new option '-F, --recompress'.
* encoder.h (update_prices): Update high length symbol prices
- independently of the value of `pos_state'. This gives better
- compression for large values of `--match-length' without being
+ independently of the value of 'pos_state'. This gives better
+ compression for large values of '--match-length' without being
slower.
* encoder.h encoder.cc: Optimize pair price calculations. This
- reduces compression time for large values of `--match-length'
+ reduces compression time for large values of '--match-length'
by up to 6%.
- * Compression time of option `-0' has been reduced by 2%.
+ * Compression time of option '-0' has been reduced by 2%.
* main.cc (decompress): Print only one status line for each
- multimember file when only one `-v' is specified.
+ multi-member file when only one '-v' is specified.
* main.cc (decompress): Print up to 6 bytes of trailing garbage
- when `-vvvv' is specified.
+ when '-vvvv' is specified.
* main.cc (open_instream): Do not show the message
- " and `--stdout' was not specified" for directories, etc.
- * lziprecover.cc: If `-v' is not specified show errors only.
+ " and '--stdout' was not specified" for directories, etc.
+ * lziprecover.cc: If '-v' is not specified show errors only.
* testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Use Arg_parser.
- * testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Added new option `-b, --bits'.
- * testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Added new option `-p, --position'.
- * testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Added new option `-s, --size'.
+ * testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-b, --bits'.
+ * testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-p, --position'.
+ * testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Added new option '-s, --size'.
2010-09-16 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
* Version 1.11 released.
- * Added new option `-0' which produces a compression speed and
- ratio comparable to those of `gzip -9'.
+ * Added new option '-0' which produces a compression speed and
+ ratio comparable to those of 'gzip -9'.
* fast_encoder.h fast_encoder.cc: New files.
* main.cc: Match length limit set by options -1 to -8 has been
reduced to extend range of use towards gzip. Lower numbers now
compress less but faster. (-1 now takes 43% less time for only
20% larger compressed size).
* encoder.cc: Compression of option -9 has been slightly increased.
- * lziprecover.cc: Added new option `-m, --merge' which tries to
+ * lziprecover.cc: Added new option '-m, --merge' which tries to
produce a correct file merging the good parts of two or more
damaged copies.
- * lziprecover.cc: Added new option `-R, --repair' for repairing
+ * lziprecover.cc: Added new option '-R, --repair' for repairing
a 1-byte error in single-member files.
* decoder.cc (decode_member): Detect file errors earlier to
improve efficiency of lziprecover's new repair capability.
This change also prevents (harmless) access to uninitialized
memory when decompressing a corrupt file.
- * lziprecover.cc: Added new option `-f, --force'.
- * lziprecover.cc: Added new option `-o, --output'.
- * lziprecover.cc: Added new option `-s, --split' to select the
- until now only operation of splitting multimember files.
+ * lziprecover.cc: Added new option '-f, --force'.
+ * lziprecover.cc: Added new option '-o, --output'.
+ * lziprecover.cc: Added new option '-s, --split' to select the
+ until now only operation of splitting multi-member files.
* lziprecover.cc: If no operation is specified, warn the user
and do nothing.
* main.cc: Fixed warning about fchown's return value being ignored.
- * decoder.cc: `-tvvvv' now also shows compression ratio.
+ * decoder.cc: '-tvvvv' now also shows compression ratio.
* main.cc: Set stdin/stdout in binary mode on MSVC and OS2.
* New examples have been added to the manual.
- * testsuite: `test1' renamed to `test.txt'. Added new tests.
+ * testsuite: 'test1' renamed to 'test.txt'. Added new tests.
* Matchfinder types HC4 (4 bytes hash-chain) and HT4 (4 bytes
hash-table) have been tested and found no better than the
current BT4.
@@ -68,9 +76,9 @@
* Version 1.10 released.
* decoder.h: Input_buffer integrated in Range_decoder.
- * main.cc: File specified with option `-o' is now created with
+ * main.cc: File specified with option '-o' is now created with
mode 0666 if umask allows it, deleted if interrupted by user.
- * main.cc: New constant `o_binary'.
+ * main.cc: New constant 'o_binary'.
* main.cc: Dictionary size for options -2, -3, -4 and -8 has
been changed to improve linearity of compressed sizes.
* lzip.h: Fixed warnings produced by over-optimization (-O3).
@@ -80,8 +88,8 @@
* Version 1.9 released.
* main.cc (main): Return at least 1 if closing stdout fails.
- * Makefile.in: Added `--name' option to help2man invocation.
- * testsuite/check.sh: Use `test1' instead of `COPYING' for testing.
+ * Makefile.in: Added '--name' option to help2man invocation.
+ * testsuite/check.sh: Use 'test1' instead of 'COPYING' for testing.
2009-09-02 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
@@ -106,25 +114,25 @@
is smaller than dictionary size limit.
* decoder.cc: Added extra flush calls to improve partial
decompression of corrupt files.
- * `--test' no more needs `/dev/null'.
- * Removed some `bashisms' from lzdiff and lzgrep.
- * Dictionary size for options `-1' to `-4' has been changed.
- * main.cc (signal_handler): Declared as `extern "C"'.
+ * '--test' no more needs '/dev/null'.
+ * Removed some 'bashisms' from lzdiff and lzgrep.
+ * Dictionary size for options '-1' to '-4' has been changed.
+ * main.cc (signal_handler): Declared as 'extern "C"'.
* Makefile.in: Extra files are now installed by default.
* testsuite/check.sh: Test lziprecover.
- * Added `export LC_ALL=C' to all scripts.
+ * Added 'export LC_ALL=C' to all scripts.
2009-04-12 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
* Version 1.5 released.
* lzip.h: Coded dictionary size implemented in File_header.
* Fixed some includes that prevented compilation with GCC 4.4.
- * `member_size' and `volume_size' are now accurate limits.
+ * 'member_size' and 'volume_size' are now accurate limits.
* Compression speed has been improved.
* Implemented bt4 type matchfinder.
- * Added chapter `Algorithm' to the manual.
- * Lzdiff and lzgrep now accept `-h' for `--help' and
- `-V' for `--version'.
+ * Added chapter 'Algorithm' to the manual.
+ * Lzdiff and lzgrep now accept '-h' for '--help' and
+ '-V' for '--version'.
* Makefile.in: Man page is now installed by default.
* testsuite/check.sh: Verify that files are open in binary mode.
@@ -132,11 +140,11 @@
* Version 1.4 released.
* Implemented compression of version 1 files.
- * Added new option `-b, --member-size'.
- * Added new option `-S, --volume-size'.
- * Added new option `-o, --output'.
- * main.cc: Read from non regular files if `--stdout' is specified.
- * Added `lziprecover', a member recoverer program.
+ * Added new option '-b, --member-size'.
+ * Added new option '-S, --volume-size'.
+ * Added new option '-o, --output'.
+ * main.cc: Read from non regular files if '--stdout' is specified.
+ * Added 'lziprecover', a member recoverer program.
* testsuite/unzcrash.cc: Test all 1-byte errors.
2008-12-21 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
@@ -146,7 +154,7 @@
dictionary size for each file during compression, saving
memory during decompression.
* Implemented decompression of version 1 files.
- * testsuite/check.sh: Replaced `diff -q' with `cmp'.
+ * testsuite/check.sh: Replaced 'diff -q' with 'cmp'.
2008-12-10 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
@@ -154,23 +162,23 @@
* encoder.cc: A 1-byte read outside allocated memory has been fixed.
* lzip.h: Dictionary size limit has been reduced to 512MiB because
setting it to 1GiB causes overflow of a 32 bit integer.
- * Added `lzdiff', a diff/cmp wrapper for gzip, bzip2, lzip and
+ * Added 'lzdiff', a diff/cmp wrapper for gzip, bzip2, lzip and
non-compressed files.
- * Added `lzgrep', a grep wrapper for gzip, bzip2, lzip and
+ * Added 'lzgrep', a grep wrapper for gzip, bzip2, lzip and
non-compressed files.
- * `make install-info' should now work on Debian and OS X.
+ * 'make install-info' should now work on Debian and OS X.
2008-11-17 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
* Version 1.1 released.
- * Changed short name of option `--dictionary-size' to `-s'.
- * Changed short name of option `--match-length' to `-m'.
+ * Changed short name of option '--dictionary-size' to '-s'.
+ * Changed short name of option '--match-length' to '-m'.
* Changed LONG_LONG_MAX to LLONG_MAX.
2008-10-14 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
* Version 1.0 released.
- * `-tvv' shows file version and dictionary size.
+ * '-tvv' shows file version and dictionary size.
2008-09-30 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
@@ -180,7 +188,7 @@
2008-09-23 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
* Version 0.4 released.
- * Code cleanup for global variable `verbosity'.
+ * Code cleanup for global variable 'verbosity'.
* Regained the compression ratio of 0.2 with 5% faster speed.
* Fixed compilation on sistems where size_t != unsigned int.
@@ -188,8 +196,8 @@
* Version 0.3 released.
* encoder.cc: Compression is now 15% faster, 1% worse.
- * main.cc (main): Make `-t' option override `-c'.
- * main.cc (decompress): Show `done' instead of `ok' when not testing.
+ * main.cc (main): Make '-t' option override '-c'.
+ * main.cc (decompress): Show 'done' instead of 'ok' when not testing.
* encoder.h: Use trials[] to return the list of pairs.
2008-09-09 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
@@ -203,7 +211,7 @@
* Version 0.1 released.
-Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is a collection of facts, and thus it is not copyrightable,
but just in case, you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute and