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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 14:05:37 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 14:05:37 +0000
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@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ into account both data integrity and decoder availability:
* Additionally lzip is copylefted, which guarantees that it will
remain free forever.
+A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to
+repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with
+the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a
+corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.
+
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.c' and 'bbexample.c' from the
@@ -74,7 +79,7 @@ range encoding), Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in
LZMA), and Julian Seward (for bzip2's CLI).
-Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute and modify it.