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diff --git a/doc/minilzip.1 b/doc/minilzip.1 index 0c4c06d..3532520 100644 --- a/doc/minilzip.1 +++ b/doc/minilzip.1 @@ -1,24 +1,25 @@ -.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.16. -.TH MINILZIP "1" "January 2022" "minilzip 1.13" "User Commands" +.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.49.2. +.TH MINILZIP "1" "January 2024" "minilzip 1.14" "User Commands" .SH NAME minilzip \- reduces the size of files .SH SYNOPSIS .B minilzip [\fI\,options\/\fR] [\fI\,files\/\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION -Minilzip is a test program for the compression library lzlib, fully -compatible with lzip 1.4 or newer. +Minilzip is a test program for the compression library lzlib, compatible +with lzip 1.4 or newer. .PP Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of the 'Lempel\-Ziv\-Markov -chain\-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format and provides a 3 factor integrity -checking to maximize interoperability and optimize safety. Lzip can compress -about as fast as gzip (lzip \fB\-0\fR) or compress most files more than bzip2 -(lzip \fB\-9\fR). Decompression speed is intermediate between gzip and bzip2. -Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 from a data recovery perspective. Lzip -has been designed, written, and tested with great care to replace gzip and -bzip2 as the standard general\-purpose compressed format for unix\-like -systems. +chain\-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format to maximize interoperability. The +maximum dictionary size is 512 MiB so that any lzip file can be decompressed +on 32\-bit machines. Lzip provides accurate and robust 3\-factor integrity +checking. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip \fB\-0\fR) or compress most +files more than bzip2 (lzip \fB\-9\fR). Decompression speed is intermediate between +gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 from a data recovery +perspective. Lzip has been designed, written, and tested with great care to +replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard general\-purpose compressed format for +Unix\-like systems. .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR @@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ set member size limit in bytes write to standard output, keep input files .TP \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-decompress\fR -decompress +decompress, test compressed file integrity .TP \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-force\fR overwrite existing output files @@ -88,24 +89,24 @@ 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. +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 options \fB\-\-dictionary\-size\fR and \fB\-\-match\-length\fR -directly to achieve optimal performance. +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 options \fB\-\-dictionary\-size\fR and \fB\-\-match\-length\fR directly +to achieve optimal performance. .PP To extract all the files from archive 'foo.tar.lz', use the commands \&'tar \fB\-xf\fR foo.tar.lz' or 'minilzip \fB\-cd\fR foo.tar.lz | tar \fB\-xf\fR \-'. .PP -Exit status: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems (file -not found, invalid flags, I/O errors, etc), 2 to indicate a corrupt or -invalid input file, 3 for an internal consistency error (e.g., bug) which -caused minilzip to panic. +Exit status: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems +(file not found, invalid command\-line options, I/O errors, etc), 2 to +indicate a corrupt or invalid input file, 3 for an internal consistency +error (e.g., bug) which caused minilzip to panic. .PP The ideas embodied in lzlib are due to (at least) the following people: -Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrey Markov (for the +Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrei Markov (for the definition of Markov chains), G.N.N. Martin (for the definition of range encoding), Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in LZMA), and Julian Seward (for bzip2's CLI). @@ -114,8 +115,9 @@ Report bugs to lzip\-bug@nongnu.org .br Lzlib home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzlib.html .SH COPYRIGHT -Copyright \(co 2022 Antonio Diaz Diaz. -Using lzlib 1.13 +Copyright \(co 2024 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Using lzlib 1.14 +Using LZ_API_VERSION = 1014 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. |