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Description
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.
+based on the lzlib compression library, with very safe integrity
+checking and a user interface similar to the one of bzip2, gzip or lzip.
+Plzip uses 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, which makes it specially well suited for
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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.
+Makefile. It has the same copyright owner and permissions that configure
+itself.