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authorDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 15:39:51 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>2015-11-07 15:39:51 +0000
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parentAdding upstream version 1.2. (diff)
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Adding upstream version 1.3~pre1.upstream/1.3_pre1
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@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ decompressed in parallel.
Plzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer, and can be rescued with lziprecover.
-The lzip file format is designed for long-term data archiving, taking
-into account both data integrity and decoder availability:
+The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
+archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder
+availability:
* The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data
recovery means. The lziprecover program can repair bit-flip errors
@@ -39,8 +40,8 @@ into account both data integrity and decoder availability:
extract the data from a lzip file long after quantum computers
eventually render LZMA obsolete.
- * Additionally lzip is copylefted, which guarantees that it will
- remain free forever.
+ * Additionally the lzip reference implementation is copylefted, which
+ guarantees that it will remain free forever.
A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to
repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with