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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 |