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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2016-06-01 14:10:12 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2016-06-01 14:10:12 +0000
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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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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.46.1.
-.TH MINILZIP "1" "July 2015" "minilzip 1.7" "User Commands"
+.TH MINILZIP "1" "May 2016" "minilzip 1.8" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
minilzip \- reduces the size of files
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -15,11 +15,14 @@ display this help and exit
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.TP
+\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-trailing\-error\fR
+exit with error status if trailing data
+.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-member\-size=\fR<bytes>
set member size limit in bytes
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-stdout\fR
-send output to standard output
+write to standard output, keep input files
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-decompress\fR
decompress
@@ -37,7 +40,7 @@ keep (don't delete) input files
set match length limit in bytes [36]
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output=\fR<file>
-if reading stdin, place the output into <file>
+if reading standard input, write to <file>
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
suppress all messages
@@ -63,13 +66,16 @@ alias for \fB\-0\fR
\fB\-\-best\fR
alias for \fB\-9\fR
.PP
-If no file names are given, minilzip compresses or decompresses
-from standard input to standard output.
+If no file names are given, or if a file is '\-', minilzip compresses or
+decompresses from standard input to standard output.
Numbers may be followed by a multiplier: k = kB = 10^3 = 1000,
Ki = KiB = 2^10 = 1024, M = 10^6, Mi = 2^20, G = 10^9, Gi = 2^30, etc...
+Dictionary sizes 12 to 29 are interpreted as powers of two, meaning 2^12
+to 2^29 bytes.
+.PP
The bidimensional parameter space of LZMA can't be mapped to a linear
scale optimal for all files. If your files are large, very repetitive,
-etc, you may need to use the \fB\-\-match\-length\fR and \fB\-\-dictionary\-size\fR
+etc, you may need to use the \fB\-\-dictionary\-size\fR and \fB\-\-match\-length\fR
options directly to achieve optimal performance.
.PP
Exit status: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems (file
@@ -81,8 +87,8 @@ Report bugs to lzip\-bug@nongnu.org
.br
Lzlib home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzlib.html
.SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 2015 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
-Using lzlib 1.7
+Copyright \(co 2016 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Using lzlib 1.8
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.