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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-11-10 08:40:31 +0000
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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.49.2.
-.TH PDLZIP "1" "January 2024" "pdlzip 1.13" "User Commands"
+.TH PDLZIP "1" "November 2024" "pdlzip 1.14-rc1" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
pdlzip \- reduces the size of files
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -9,19 +9,19 @@ pdlzip \- reduces the size of files
Pdlzip is a permissively licensed implementation of the lzip data
compressor, intended for those who can't distribute (or even use) GPL
licensed Free Software. The name of pdlzip comes from 'public domain lzip'.
-Pdlzip is written in C and is compatible with lzip 1.4 or newer.
+Pdlzip is written in C.
.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 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.
+of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of LZMA (Lempel\-Ziv\-Markov
+chain\-Algorithm) designed to achieve complete interoperability between
+implementations. 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 \fB\-0\fR' compresses about as fast as
+gzip, while 'lzip \fB\-9\fR' compresses most files more than bzip2. Decompression
+speed is intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip provides better data
+recovery capabilities than gzip and bzip2. Lzip has been designed, written,
+and tested with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as general\-purpose
+compressed format for Unix\-like systems.
.PP
Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma\-alone (.lzma) files.
Lzma\-alone is a very bad format; it is essentially a raw LZMA stream.