Merging upstream version 0.5.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 16 deletions

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 @finalout
 @c %**end of header
 
-@set UPDATED 31 January 2010
-@set VERSION 0.4
+@set UPDATED 10 February 2010
+@set VERSION 0.5
 
 @dircategory Data Compression
 @direntry
@@ -50,19 +50,16 @@ to copy, distribute and modify it.
 @chapter Introduction
 @cindex introduction
 
-Plzip is a massively parallel (multithreaded) data compressor compatible
-with the lzip file format. The files produced by plzip are fully
-compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. Plzip is intended for faster
-compression/decompression of big files on multiprocessor machines. On
-files big enough, plzip can use hundreds of processors. Currently only
-compression is performed in parallel. Parallel decompression is planned
-to be implemented later.
+Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded), lossless data compressor
+based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and a
+user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. Plzip uses the lzip
+file format; the files produced by plzip are fully compatible with
+lzip-1.4 or newer.
 
-Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with
-very safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of
-gzip or bzip2. Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses
-better than bzip2, which makes it well suited for software distribution
-and data archiving.
+Plzip is intended for faster compression/decompression of big files on
+multiprocessor machines, which makes it specially well suited for
+distribution of big software files and large scale data archiving. On
+files big enough, plzip can use hundreds of processors.
 
 Plzip replaces every file given in the command line with a compressed
 version of itself, with the name "original_name.lz". Each compressed
@@ -135,8 +132,8 @@ Print the version number of plzip on the standard output and exit.
 @itemx -B
 Set the input data block size in bytes. The input file will be divided
 in chunks of this size before compression is performed. Valid values
-range from 100kB to 1GiB. Default value is two times the dictionary
-size. It is a waste of memory to choose a data size smaller than the
+range from 8KiB to 1GiB. Default value is two times the dictionary size.
+It is a waste of memory to choose a data size smaller than the
 dictionary size.
 
 @item --stdout