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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 11:41:41 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 11:41:41 +0000
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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