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@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ 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. |