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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 10:16:35 +0000
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@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ 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.
+Lziprecover is able to efficiently extract a range of bytes from a
+multi-member file, because it only decompresses the members containing
+the desired data.
+
+Lziprecover can print correct total file sizes and ratios even for
+multi-member files.
+
When recovering data, lziprecover takes as arguments the names of the
damaged files and writes zero or more recovered files depending on the
operation selected and whether the recovery succeeded or not. The
@@ -32,3 +39,13 @@ copies.
If the cause of file corruption is damaged media, the combination
GNU ddrescue + lziprecover is the best option for recovering data from
multiple damaged copies.
+
+
+Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+
+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 configure
+itself.