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@@ -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. |