From a061471f450a2efc60371f90ac9483c8ed4375fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 14:32:21 +0100 Subject: Adding upstream version 0.3. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- README | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..461e233 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Description + +The lzlib compression library provides in-memory LZMA compression and +decompression functions, including integrity checking of the +uncompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the +lzip format. + +The functions and variables forming the interface of the compression +library are declared in the file lzlib.h. An usage example of the +library is given in the file main.cc. + +Compression/decompression is done by repeteadly calling a couple of +read/write functions until all the data has been processed by the +library. This interface is safer and less error prone than the +traditional zlib interface. + +Lzlib will correctly decompress a data stream which is the concatenation +of two or more compressed data streams. The result is the concatenation +of the corresponding uncompressed data streams. Integrity testing of +concatenated compressed data streams is also supported. + +All the library functions are thread safe. The library does not install +any signal handler. The decoder checks the consistency of the compressed +data, so the library should never crash even in case of corrupted input. + +Lzlib implements a simplified version of the LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov +chain-Algorithm) algorithm. The original LZMA algorithm was designed by +Igor Pavlov. For a description of the LZMA algorithm, see the Lzip +manual. + + +Copyright (C) 2009 Antonio Diaz Diaz. + +This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, +distribute and modify it. + +The file Makefile.in is a data file used by configure to produce the +Makefile. It has the same copyright owner and permissions that this +file. -- cgit v1.2.3