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@finalout
@c %**end of header
-@set UPDATED 7 February 2013
-@set VERSION 1.4-rc2
+@set UPDATED 28 May 2013
+@set VERSION 1.4
@dircategory Data Compression
@direntry
@@ -600,15 +600,19 @@ A four byte string, identifying the lzip format, with the value "LZIP".
Just in case something needs to be modified in the future. 1 for now.
@item DS (coded dictionary size, 1 byte)
-Bits 4-0 contain the base 2 logarithm of the base dictionary size.@*
-Bits 7-5 contain the number of "wedges" to substract from the base
-dictionary size to obtain the dictionary size. The size of a wedge is
-(base dictionary size / 16).@*
+Lzip divides the distance between any two powers of 2 into 8 equally
+spaced intervals, named "wedges". The dictionary size is calculated by
+taking a power of 2 (the base size) and substracting from it a number of
+wedges between 0 and 7. The size of a wedge is (base_size / 16).@*
+Bits 4-0 contain the base 2 logarithm of the base size (12 to 29).@*
+Bits 7-5 contain the number of wedges (0 to 7) to substract from the
+base size to obtain the dictionary size.@*
+Example: 0xD3 = (2^19 - 6 * 2^15) = (512KiB - 6 * 32KiB) = 320KiB@*
Valid values for dictionary size range from 4KiB to 512MiB.
@item Lzma stream
The lzma stream, finished by an end of stream marker. Uses default values
-for encoder properties.
+for encoder properties. See the lzip manual for a full description.
@item CRC32 (4 bytes)
CRC of the uncompressed original data.
@@ -618,8 +622,8 @@ 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, and facilitates safe recovery of undamaged
-members from multi-member files.
+as a distributed index, allows the verification of stream integrity, and
+facilitates safe recovery of undamaged members from multi-member files.
@end table