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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 11:48:34 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 11:48:34 +0000
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parentAdding upstream version 1.16~rc1. (diff)
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@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ into account both data integrity and decoder availability:
* Additionally lzip is copylefted, which guarantees that it will
remain free forever.
+A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to
+repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with
+the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a
+corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.
+
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.
@@ -67,7 +72,7 @@ unzcrash.c from Julian Seward's bzip2. Type 'make unzcrash' in the
lziprecover source directory to build it. Then try 'unzcrash --help'.
-Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute and modify it.