From 4b2126b14346d29e15ddd4867930e96c857e168c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 14:46:00 +0100 Subject: Merging upstream version 1.3. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- doc/lzlib.texinfo | 31 ++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/lzlib.texinfo') diff --git a/doc/lzlib.texinfo b/doc/lzlib.texinfo index 55e5fa6..17b78f1 100644 --- a/doc/lzlib.texinfo +++ b/doc/lzlib.texinfo @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- @c %**start of header @setfilename lzlib.info +@documentencoding ISO-8859-15 @settitle Lzlib Manual @finalout @c %**end of header -@set UPDATED 25 October 2011 -@set VERSION 1.2 +@set UPDATED 29 February 2012 +@set VERSION 1.3 @dircategory Data Compression @direntry @@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ This manual is for Lzlib (version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}). @end menu @sp 1 -Copyright @copyright{} 2009, 2010, 2011 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright @copyright{} 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This manual is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. @@ -62,12 +63,12 @@ to copy, distribute and modify it. Lzlib is a data compression library providing in-memory LZMA compression and decompression functions, including integrity checking of the decompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the -lzip format. +lzip format. Lzlib is written in C. The functions and variables forming the interface of the compression library are declared in the file @samp{lzlib.h}. Usage examples of the -library are given in the files @samp{main.cc} and @samp{bbexample.cc} -from the source distribution. +library are given in the files @samp{main.c} and @samp{bbexample.c} from +the source distribution. Compression/decompression is done by repeatedly calling a couple of read/write functions until all the data has been processed by the @@ -213,7 +214,7 @@ ratios but longer compression times. @var{member_size} sets the member size limit in bytes. Minimum member size limit is 100kB. Small member size may degrade compression ratio, so -use it only when needed. To produce a single member data stream, give +use it only when needed. To produce a single-member data stream, give @var{member_size} a value larger than the amount of data to be produced, for example LLONG_MAX. @end deftypefun @@ -237,7 +238,7 @@ After all the produced compressed data has been read with @deftypefun int LZ_compress_restart_member ( struct LZ_Encoder * const @var{encoder}, const long long @var{member_size} ) -Use this function to start a new member, in a multimember data stream. +Use this function to start a new member, in a multi-member data stream. Call this function only after @samp{LZ_compress_member_finished} indicates that the current member has been fully read (with the @samp{LZ_compress_read} function). @@ -297,7 +298,7 @@ be safely called. Otherwise it returns 0. @deftypefun int LZ_compress_member_finished ( struct LZ_Encoder * const @var{encoder} ) -Returns 1 if the current member, in a multimember data stream, has been +Returns 1 if the current member, in a multi-member data stream, has been fully read and @samp{LZ_compress_restart_member} can be safely called. Otherwise it returns 0. @end deftypefun @@ -612,7 +613,7 @@ Size of the uncompressed original data. @item Member size (8 bytes) Total size of the member, including header and trailer. This facilitates -safe recovery of undamaged members from multimember files. +safe recovery of undamaged members from multi-member files. @end table @@ -623,10 +624,14 @@ safe recovery of undamaged members from multimember files. This chapter shows the order in which the library functions should be called depending on what kind of data stream you want to compress or -decompress. See the file @samp{bbexample.cc} in the source distribution +decompress. See the file @samp{bbexample.c} in the source distribution for an example of how buffer-to-buffer compression/decompression can be implemented using lzlib. +Note that lzlib's interface is symmetrical. That is, the code for normal +compression and decompression is identical except because one calls +LZ_compress* functions while the other calls LZ_decompress* functions. + @sp 1 @noindent Example 1: Normal compression (@var{member_size} > total output). @@ -693,7 +698,7 @@ Example 4: Decompression using LZ_decompress_write_size. @sp 1 @noindent -Example 5: Multimember compression (@var{member_size} < total output). +Example 5: Multi-member compression (@var{member_size} < total output). @example 1) LZ_compress_open @@ -711,7 +716,7 @@ Example 5: Multimember compression (@var{member_size} < total output). @sp 1 @noindent -Example 6: Multimember compression (user-restarted members). +Example 6: Multi-member compression (user-restarted members). @example 1) LZ_compress_open -- cgit v1.2.3