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author | Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch> | 2015-11-07 13:45:54 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch> | 2015-11-07 13:45:54 +0000 |
commit | 53eee7f4e2ef4d4211df3e860e3c787fbd83c3e8 (patch) | |
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Adding upstream version 1.3.upstream/1.3
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@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ Description Lzlib is a data compression library providing in-memory LZMA compression and decompression functions, including integrity checking of the decompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the -lzip format. +lzip format. Lzlib is written in C. The functions and variables forming the interface of the compression library are declared in the file lzlib.h. Usage examples of the library -are given in the files main.cc and bbexample.cc from the source +are given in the files main.c and bbexample.c from the source distribution. Compression/decompression is done by repeatedly calling a couple of @@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ read/write functions until all the data has been processed by the library. This interface is safer and less error prone than the traditional zlib interface. +Compression/decompression is done when the read function is called. This +means the value returned by the position functions will not be updated +until some data is read, even if you write a lot of data. If you want +the data to be compressed in advance, just call the read function with a +size equal to 0. + Lzlib will correctly decompress a data stream which is the concatenation of two or more compressed data streams. The result is the concatenation of the corresponding decompressed data streams. Integrity testing of @@ -30,7 +36,7 @@ Igor Pavlov. For a description of the LZMA algorithm, see the Lzip manual. -Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. |