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@finalout
@c %**end of header
-@set UPDATED 27 April 2009
-@set VERSION 1.6-pre1
+@set UPDATED 21 May 2009
+@set VERSION 1.6-pre2
@dircategory Data Compression
@direntry
@@ -84,11 +84,12 @@ compressed output in volumes of a given size, even when reading from
standard input. This allows the direct creation of multivolume
compressed tar archives.
-The amount of memory required for compression is about 2 times the
-dictionary size limit plus 8 times the dictionary size really used. For
-decompression is a little more than the dictionary size really used.
-Lzip will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size for
-each member without exceeding the given limit. It is important to
+The amount of memory required for compression is about 5 MiB plus 1 or 2
+times the dictionary size limit (1 if input file size is less than
+dictionary size limit, else 2) plus 8 times the dictionary size really
+used. For decompression is a little more than the dictionary size really
+used. Lzip will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size
+for each member 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.