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diff --git a/doc/plzip.1 b/doc/plzip.1 index 01f4e36..5a61596 100644 --- a/doc/plzip.1 +++ b/doc/plzip.1 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.46.1. -.TH PLZIP "1" "July 2015" "plzip 1.4" "User Commands" +.TH PLZIP "1" "May 2016" "plzip 1.5" "User Commands" .SH NAME plzip \- reduces the size of files .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -15,11 +15,14 @@ display this help and exit \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR output version information and exit .TP +\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-trailing\-error\fR +exit with error status if trailing data +.TP \fB\-B\fR, \fB\-\-data\-size=\fR<bytes> set size of input data blocks [2x8=16 MiB] .TP \fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-stdout\fR -send output to standard output +write to standard output, keep input files .TP \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-decompress\fR decompress @@ -40,7 +43,7 @@ set match length limit in bytes [36] set number of (de)compression threads [2] .TP \fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output=\fR<file> -if reading stdin, place the output into <file> +if reading standard input, write to <file> .TP \fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR suppress all messages @@ -63,13 +66,16 @@ alias for \fB\-0\fR \fB\-\-best\fR alias for \fB\-9\fR .PP -If no file names are given, plzip compresses or decompresses -from standard input to standard output. +If no file names are given, or if a file is '\-', plzip compresses or +decompresses from standard input to standard output. Numbers may be followed by a multiplier: k = kB = 10^3 = 1000, Ki = KiB = 2^10 = 1024, M = 10^6, Mi = 2^20, G = 10^9, Gi = 2^30, etc... +Dictionary sizes 12 to 29 are interpreted as powers of two, meaning 2^12 +to 2^29 bytes. +.PP The bidimensional parameter space of LZMA can't be mapped to a linear scale optimal for all files. If your files are large, very repetitive, -etc, you may need to use the \fB\-\-match\-length\fR and \fB\-\-dictionary\-size\fR +etc, you may need to use the \fB\-\-dictionary\-size\fR and \fB\-\-match\-length\fR options directly to achieve optimal performance. .PP Exit status: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems (file @@ -83,8 +89,8 @@ Plzip home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2009 Laszlo Ersek. .br -Copyright \(co 2015 Antonio Diaz Diaz. -Using lzlib 1.7 +Copyright \(co 2016 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Using lzlib 1.8 License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> .br This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. |