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author | Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch> | 2016-06-01 14:10:12 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch> | 2016-06-01 14:10:12 +0000 |
commit | 465daaa8283ffd98c0d0c6ebcd7cd702e5eddc38 (patch) | |
tree | 4a381219062c81e7760d77a54ae5028e60a7fb96 /doc/lzlib.texi | |
parent | Adding upstream version 1.7. (diff) | |
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Adding upstream version 1.8.upstream/1.8
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>
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diff --git a/doc/lzlib.texi b/doc/lzlib.texi index 4c0f370..bc3b9fe 100644 --- a/doc/lzlib.texi +++ b/doc/lzlib.texi @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ @finalout @c %**end of header -@set UPDATED 8 July 2015 -@set VERSION 1.7 +@set UPDATED 17 May 2016 +@set VERSION 1.8 @dircategory Data Compression @direntry @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ This manual is for Lzlib (version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}). @end menu @sp 1 -Copyright @copyright{} 2009-2015 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright @copyright{} 2009-2016 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This manual is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ program can repair bit-flip errors (one of the most common forms of data corruption) in lzip files, and provides data recovery capabilities, including error-checked merging of damaged copies of a file. @ifnothtml -@ref{Data safety,,,lziprecover}. +@xref{Data safety,,,lziprecover}. @end ifnothtml @item @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ should be freed with @samp{LZ_compress_close} to avoid memory leaks. @var{dictionary_size} sets the dictionary size to be used, in bytes. Valid values range from 4 KiB to 512 MiB. Note that dictionary sizes are quantized. If the specified size does not match one of the valid sizes, -it will be rounded upwards by adding up to (@var{dictionary_size} / 16) +it will be rounded upwards by adding up to (@var{dictionary_size} / 8) to it. @var{match_len_limit} sets the match length limit in bytes. Valid values @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ After all the produced compressed data have been read with @deftypefun int LZ_compress_restart_member ( struct LZ_Encoder * const @var{encoder}, const unsigned long long @var{member_size} ) -Use this function to start a new member, in a multi-member data stream. +Use this function to start a new member in a multimember data stream. Call this function only after @samp{LZ_compress_member_finished} indicates that the current member has been fully read (with the @samp{LZ_compress_read} function). @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ can be safely called. Otherwise it returns 0. @deftypefun int LZ_compress_member_finished ( struct LZ_Encoder * const @var{encoder} ) -Returns 1 if the current member, in a multi-member data stream, has been +Returns 1 if the current member, in a multimember data stream, has been fully read and @samp{LZ_compress_restart_member} can be safely called. Otherwise it returns 0. @end deftypefun @@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ this return value only tells you that an error has occurred. To find out what kind of error it was, you need to verify the error code by calling @samp{LZ_(de)compress_errno}. -Library functions do not change the value returned by +Library functions don't change the value returned by @samp{LZ_(de)compress_errno} when they succeed; thus, the value returned by @samp{LZ_(de)compress_errno} after a successful call is not necessarily LZ_ok, and you should not use @samp{LZ_(de)compress_errno} @@ -592,8 +592,9 @@ finished. @end deftypevr @deftypevr Constant {enum LZ_Errno} LZ_header_error -Reading of member header failed. If this happens at the end of the data -stream it may indicate trailing garbage. +An invalid member header (one with the wrong magic bytes) was read. If +this happens at the end of the data stream it may indicate trailing +data. @end deftypevr @deftypevr Constant {enum LZ_Errno} LZ_unexpected_eof @@ -657,14 +658,14 @@ with no additional information before, between, or after them. Each member has the following structure: @verbatim +--+--+--+--+----+----+=============+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -| ID string | VN | DS | Lzma stream | CRC32 | Data size | Member size | +| ID string | VN | DS | LZMA stream | CRC32 | Data size | Member size | +--+--+--+--+----+----+=============+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ @end verbatim All multibyte values are stored in little endian order. @table @samp -@item ID string +@item ID string (the "magic" bytes) A four byte string, identifying the lzip format, with the value "LZIP" (0x4C, 0x5A, 0x49, 0x50). @@ -681,8 +682,8 @@ from the base size to obtain the dictionary size.@* Example: 0xD3 = 2^19 - 6 * 2^15 = 512 KiB - 6 * 32 KiB = 320 KiB@* Valid values for dictionary size range from 4 KiB to 512 MiB. -@item Lzma stream -The lzma stream, finished by an end of stream marker. Uses default +@item LZMA stream +The LZMA stream, finished by an end of stream marker. Uses default values for encoder properties. @ifnothtml @xref{Stream format,,,lzip}, @@ -704,7 +705,7 @@ Size of the uncompressed original data. @item Member size (8 bytes) Total size of the member, including header and trailer. This field acts as a distributed index, allows the verification of stream integrity, and -facilitates safe recovery of undamaged members from multi-member files. +facilitates safe recovery of undamaged members from multimember files. @end table @@ -785,7 +786,7 @@ Example 4: Decompression using LZ_decompress_write_size. @sp 1 @noindent -Example 5: Multi-member compression (@var{member_size} < total output). +Example 5: Multimember compression (@var{member_size} < total output). @example 1) LZ_compress_open @@ -802,7 +803,7 @@ Example 5: Multi-member compression (@var{member_size} < total output). @sp 1 @noindent -Example 6: Multi-member compression (user-restarted members). +Example 6: Multimember compression (user-restarted members). @example 1) LZ_compress_open @@ -821,7 +822,7 @@ Example 6: Multi-member compression (user-restarted members). @sp 1 @noindent -Example 7: Decompression with automatic removal of leading garbage. +Example 7: Decompression with automatic removal of leading data. @example 1) LZ_decompress_open |