From 9317e4b89644635a9ce309c4626d917d886ae20b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 12:41:41 +0100 Subject: Merging upstream version 1.15~pre1. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- README | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index e5b3641..e96690f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3