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@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@ -.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.46.1. -.TH LZIP "1" "January 2019" "lzip 1.21" "User Commands" +.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.16. +.TH LZIP "1" "January 2021" "lzip 1.22" "User Commands" .SH NAME lzip \- reduces the size of files .SH SYNOPSIS .B lzip [\fI\,options\/\fR] [\fI\,files\/\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION -Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the -one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip \fB\-0\fR) -or compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip \fB\-9\fR). Decompression speed is -intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 -from a data recovery perspective. Lzip has been designed, written and -tested with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard -general\-purpose compressed format for unix\-like systems. +Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one +of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of the 'Lempel\-Ziv\-Markov +chain\-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format, chosen to maximize safety and +interoperability. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip \fB\-0\fR) or +compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip \fB\-9\fR). Decompression speed is +intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 from +a data recovery perspective. Lzip has been designed, written, and tested +with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard general\-purpose +compressed format for unix\-like systems. .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR @@ -49,7 +51,7 @@ print (un)compressed file sizes set match length limit in bytes [36] .TP \fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output=\fR<file> -if reading standard input, write to <file> +write to <file>, keep input files .TP \fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR suppress all messages @@ -87,19 +89,28 @@ to 2^29 bytes. .PP The bidimensional parameter space of LZMA can't be mapped to a linear scale optimal for all files. If your files are large, very repetitive, -etc, you may need to use the \fB\-\-dictionary\-size\fR and \fB\-\-match\-length\fR -options directly to achieve optimal performance. +etc, you may need to use the options \fB\-\-dictionary\-size\fR and \fB\-\-match\-length\fR +directly to achieve optimal performance. +.PP +To extract all the files from archive 'foo.tar.lz', use the commands +\&'tar \fB\-xf\fR foo.tar.lz' or 'lzip \fB\-cd\fR foo.tar.lz | tar \fB\-xf\fR \-'. .PP Exit status: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems (file not found, invalid flags, I/O errors, etc), 2 to indicate a corrupt or invalid input file, 3 for an internal consistency error (eg, bug) which caused lzip to panic. +.PP +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). .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs to lzip\-bug@nongnu.org .br Lzip home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html .SH COPYRIGHT -Copyright \(co 2019 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright \(co 2021 Antonio Diaz Diaz. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> .br This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. |