Merging upstream version 1.14~rc1.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/doc/lziprecover.texinfo b/doc/lziprecover.texinfo
index 22eea8a..872abb4 100644
--- a/doc/lziprecover.texinfo
+++ b/doc/lziprecover.texinfo
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 @finalout
 @c %**end of header
 
-@set UPDATED 24 February 2012
-@set VERSION 1.13
+@set UPDATED 27 February 2013
+@set VERSION 1.14-rc1
 
 @dircategory Data Compression
 @direntry
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ This manual is for Lziprecover (version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}).
 @end menu
 
 @sp 1
-Copyright @copyright{} 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright @copyright{} 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
 
 This manual is free documentation: you have unlimited permission
 to copy, distribute and modify it.
@@ -155,7 +155,9 @@ Keep (don't delete) input files during decompression.
 @item -l
 @itemx --list
 Print total file sizes and ratios. The values produced are correct even
-for multi-member files.
+for multi-member files. Use it together with @samp{-v} to see
+information about the members in the file.
+
 
 @item -m
 @itemx --merge
@@ -245,6 +247,11 @@ Table of SI and binary prefixes (unit multipliers):
 @chapter File Format
 @cindex file format
 
+Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but
+when there is no longer anything to take away.@*
+--- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
+
+@sp 1
 In the diagram below, a box like this:
 @verbatim
 +---+
@@ -280,15 +287,16 @@ All multibyte values are stored in little endian order.
 A four byte string, identifying the lzip format, with the value "LZIP".
 
 @item VN (version number, 1 byte)
-Just in case something needs to be modified in the future. Valid values
-are 0 and 1. Version 0 files are deprecated. They can contain only one
-member and lack the @samp{Member size} field.
+Just in case something needs to be modified in the future. 1 for now.
 
 @item DS (coded dictionary size, 1 byte)
-Bits 4-0 contain the base 2 logarithm of the base dictionary size.@*
-Bits 7-5 contain the number of "wedges" to substract from the base
-dictionary size to obtain the dictionary size. The size of a wedge is
-(base dictionary size / 16).@*
+Lzip divides the distance between any two powers of 2 into 8 equally
+spaced intervals, named "wedges". The dictionary size is calculated by
+taking a power of 2 (the base size) and substracting from it a number of
+wedges between 0 and 7. The size of a wedge is (base_size / 16).@*
+Bits 4-0 contain the base 2 logarithm of the base size (12 to 29).@*
+Bits 7-5 contain the number of wedges (0 to 7) to substract from the
+base size to obtain the dictionary size.@*
 Valid values for dictionary size range from 4KiB to 512MiB.
 
 @item Lzma stream
@@ -302,8 +310,9 @@ CRC of the uncompressed original data.
 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 multi-member files.
+Total size of the member, including header and trailer. This field acts
+as a distributed index, and facilitates safe recovery of undamaged
+members from multi-member files.
 
 @end table