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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 13:41:03 +0000
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@@ -2,21 +2,22 @@ Description
Lzlib is a data compression library providing in-memory LZMA compression
and decompression functions, including integrity checking of the
-uncompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the
+decompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the
lzip format.
The functions and variables forming the interface of the compression
-library are declared in the file lzlib.h. An usage example of the
-library is given in the file main.cc.
+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
+distribution.
-Compression/decompression is done by repeteadly calling a couple of
+Compression/decompression is done by repeatedly calling a couple of
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.
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 uncompressed data streams. Integrity testing of
+of the corresponding decompressed data streams. Integrity testing of
concatenated compressed data streams is also supported.
All the library functions are thread safe. The library does not install
@@ -29,11 +30,11 @@ Igor Pavlov. For a description of the LZMA algorithm, see the Lzip
manual.
-Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute and modify it.
The file Makefile.in is a data file used by configure to produce the
-Makefile. It has the same copyright owner and permissions that this
-file.
+Makefile. It has the same copyright owner and permissions that configure
+itself.