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@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ 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 multi-member output. The members so created are
+large (about 2^60 bytes each).
+
Lzip will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size
without exceeding the given limit. Keep in mind that the decompression
memory requirement is affected at compression time by the choice of
@@ -63,7 +67,7 @@ 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, 2011, 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute and modify it.