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diff --git a/doc/lzlib.texinfo b/doc/lzlib.texinfo index eeae174..c08303e 100644 --- a/doc/lzlib.texinfo +++ b/doc/lzlib.texinfo @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ @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 |