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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 |