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author | Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch> | 2015-11-07 11:41:34 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch> | 2015-11-07 11:41:34 +0000 |
commit | 9babb5bc11dd99942f6077669fa806d83ef146ff (patch) | |
tree | 5f2af8fceb7f878989259f6b65c6483c52891ec9 /README | |
parent | Adding upstream version 1.14. (diff) | |
download | lziprecover-9babb5bc11dd99942f6077669fa806d83ef146ff.tar.xz lziprecover-9babb5bc11dd99942f6077669fa806d83ef146ff.zip |
Adding upstream version 1.15~pre1.upstream/1.15_pre1
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>
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@@ -2,14 +2,15 @@ Description Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the lzip compressed data format (.lz) able to repair slightly damaged files, -recover badly damaged files from two or more copies, extract undamaged -members from multi-member files, decompress files and test integrity of -files. +recover badly damaged files from two or more copies, extract data from +damaged files, decompress files and test integrity of files. Lziprecover is able to recover or decompress files produced by any of the compressors in the lzip family; lzip, plzip, minilzip/lzlib, clzip -and pdlzip. This recovery capability contributes to make the lzip format -one of the best options for long-term data archiving. +and pdlzip. It makes lzip files resistant to bit-flip, one of the most +common forms of data corruption, and its recovery capabilities +contribute to make of the lzip format one of the best options for +long-term data archiving. Lziprecover is able to efficiently extract a range of bytes from a multi-member file, because it only decompresses the members containing |