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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.37.1. -.TH LZIP "1" "November 2011" "Lzip 1.13-rc1" "User Commands" +.TH LZIP "1" "January 2012" "Lzip 1.13-rc2" "User Commands" .SH NAME Lzip \- reduces the size of files .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -67,12 +67,16 @@ If no file names are given, lzip compresses or decompresses from standard input to standard output. Numbers may be followed by a multiplier: k = kB = 10^3 = 1000, Ki = KiB = 2^10 = 1024, M = 10^6, Mi = 2^20, G = 10^9, Gi = 2^30, etc... +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\-\-match\-length\fR and \fB\-\-dictionary\-size\fR +options directly to achieve optimal performance. .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 2011 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright \(co 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> .br This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. diff --git a/doc/lzip.info b/doc/lzip.info index 2981447..5d2c6ec 100644 --- a/doc/lzip.info +++ b/doc/lzip.info @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ File: lzip.info, Node: Top, Next: Introduction, Up: (dir) Lzip Manual *********** -This manual is for Lzip (version 1.13-rc1, 12 November 2011). +This manual is for Lzip (version 1.13-rc2, 5 January 2012). * Menu: @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ This manual is for Lzip (version 1.13-rc1, 12 November 2011). * Concept Index:: Index of concepts - Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Antonio Diaz Diaz. + Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This manual is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ two 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 + Lzip can produce multi-member 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 @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ The format for running lzip is: `-b BYTES' `--member-size=BYTES' - Produce a multimember file and set the member size limit to BYTES. + Produce a multi-member file and set the member size limit to BYTES. Minimum member size limit is 100kB. Small member size may degrade compression ratio, so use it only when needed. The default is to produce single-member files. @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ The format for running lzip is: Split the compressed output into several volume files with names `original_name00001.lz', `original_name00002.lz', etc, and set the volume size limit to BYTES. Each volume is a complete, maybe - multimember, lzip file. Minimum volume size limit is 100kB. Small + multi-member, lzip file. Minimum volume size limit is 100kB. Small volume size may degrade compression ratio, so use it only when needed. @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ additional information before, between, or after them. `Member size (8 bytes)' Total size of the member, including header and trailer. This - facilitates safe recovery of undamaged members from multimember + facilitates safe recovery of undamaged members from multi-member files. @@ -401,8 +401,8 @@ and show the compression ratio. lzip -v file -Example 2: Like example 1 but the created `file.lz' is multimember with -a member size of 1MiB. The compression ratio is not shown. +Example 2: Like example 1 but the created `file.lz' is multi-member +with a member size of 1MiB. The compression ratio is not shown. lzip -b 1MiB file @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ Example 9: Extract a multivolume compressed tar archive. Example 10: Create a multivolume compressed backup of a big database -file with a volume size of 650MB, where each volume is a multimember +file with a volume size of 650MB, where each volume is a multi-member file with a member size of 32MiB. lzip -b 32MiB -S 650MB big_db @@ -493,12 +493,17 @@ Concept Index Tag Table: Node: Top224 -Node: Introduction917 -Node: Algorithm4417 -Node: Invoking Lzip6935 -Node: File Format12285 -Node: Examples14277 -Node: Problems16221 -Node: Concept Index16743 +Node: Introduction921 +Node: Algorithm4422 +Node: Invoking Lzip6940 +Node: File Format12292 +Node: Examples14285 +Node: Problems16231 +Node: Concept Index16753 End Tag Table + + +Local Variables: +coding: iso-8859-15 +End: diff --git a/doc/lzip.texinfo b/doc/lzip.texinfo index 190f20f..cf7b21e 100644 --- a/doc/lzip.texinfo +++ b/doc/lzip.texinfo @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- @c %**start of header @setfilename lzip.info +@documentencoding ISO-8859-15 @settitle Lzip Manual @finalout @c %**end of header -@set UPDATED 12 November 2011 -@set VERSION 1.13-rc1 +@set UPDATED 5 January 2012 +@set VERSION 1.13-rc2 @dircategory Data Compression @direntry @@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ This manual is for Lzip (version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}). @end menu @sp 1 -Copyright @copyright{} 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright @copyright{} 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This manual is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. @@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ 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, +Lzip can produce multi-member 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 @@ -211,7 +212,7 @@ Print the version number of lzip on the standard output and exit. @item -b @var{bytes} @itemx --member-size=@var{bytes} -Produce a multimember file and set the member size limit to @var{bytes}. +Produce a multi-member file and set the member size limit to @var{bytes}. Minimum member size limit is 100kB. Small member size may degrade compression ratio, so use it only when needed. The default is to produce single-member files. @@ -275,7 +276,7 @@ is affected at compression time by the choice of dictionary size limit. Split the compressed output into several volume files with names @samp{original_name00001.lz}, @samp{original_name00002.lz}, etc, and set the volume size limit to @var{bytes}. Each volume is a complete, maybe -multimember, lzip file. Minimum volume size limit is 100kB. Small volume +multi-member, lzip file. Minimum volume size limit is 100kB. Small volume size may degrade compression ratio, so use it only when needed. @item -t @@ -405,7 +406,7 @@ Size of the uncompressed original data. @item Member size (8 bytes) Total size of the member, including header and trailer. This facilitates -safe recovery of undamaged members from multimember files. +safe recovery of undamaged members from multi-member files. @end table @@ -432,7 +433,7 @@ lzip -v file @sp 1 @noindent -Example 2: Like example 1 but the created @samp{file.lz} is multimember +Example 2: Like example 1 but the created @samp{file.lz} is multi-member with a member size of 1MiB. The compression ratio is not shown. @example @@ -505,7 +506,7 @@ lzip -cd volume_name*.lz | tar -xf - @sp 1 @noindent Example 10: Create a multivolume compressed backup of a big database -file with a volume size of 650MB, where each volume is a multimember +file with a volume size of 650MB, where each volume is a multi-member file with a member size of 32MiB. @example |