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diff --git a/doc/plzip.1 b/doc/plzip.1 index 4be148d..3985e5b 100644 --- a/doc/plzip.1 +++ b/doc/plzip.1 @@ -1,24 +1,25 @@ -.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.16. -.TH PLZIP "1" "January 2022" "plzip 1.10" "User Commands" +.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.49.2. +.TH PLZIP "1" "January 2024" "plzip 1.11" "User Commands" .SH NAME plzip \- reduces the size of files .SH SYNOPSIS .B plzip [\fI\,options\/\fR] [\fI\,files\/\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION -Plzip is a massively parallel (multi\-threaded) implementation of lzip, fully +Plzip is a massively parallel (multi\-threaded) implementation of lzip, compatible with lzip 1.4 or newer. Plzip uses the compression library lzlib. .PP Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of the 'Lempel\-Ziv\-Markov -chain\-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format and provides a 3 factor integrity -checking to maximize interoperability and optimize safety. Lzip can compress -about as fast as gzip (lzip \fB\-0\fR) or compress most files more than bzip2 -(lzip \fB\-9\fR). Decompression speed is intermediate between gzip and bzip2. -Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 from a data recovery perspective. Lzip -has been designed, written, and tested with great care to replace gzip and -bzip2 as the standard general\-purpose compressed format for unix\-like -systems. +chain\-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format to maximize interoperability. The +maximum dictionary size is 512 MiB so that any lzip file can be decompressed +on 32\-bit machines. Lzip provides accurate and robust 3\-factor integrity +checking. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip \fB\-0\fR) or compress most +files more than bzip2 (lzip \fB\-9\fR). Decompression speed is intermediate between +gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 from a data recovery +perspective. Lzip has been designed, written, and tested with great care to +replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard general\-purpose compressed format for +Unix\-like systems. .PP Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines much faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression ratio (0.4 @@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ set size of input data blocks [2x8=16 MiB] write to standard output, keep input files .TP \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-decompress\fR -decompress +decompress, test compressed file integrity .TP \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-force\fR overwrite existing output files @@ -104,21 +105,21 @@ 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. +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 options \fB\-\-dictionary\-size\fR and \fB\-\-match\-length\fR -directly to achieve optimal performance. +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 options \fB\-\-dictionary\-size\fR and \fB\-\-match\-length\fR directly +to achieve optimal performance. .PP To extract all the files from archive 'foo.tar.lz', use the commands \&'tar \fB\-xf\fR foo.tar.lz' or 'plzip \fB\-cd\fR foo.tar.lz | tar \fB\-xf\fR \-'. .PP -Exit status: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems (file -not found, invalid flags, I/O errors, etc), 2 to indicate a corrupt or -invalid input file, 3 for an internal consistency error (e.g., bug) which -caused plzip to panic. +Exit status: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems +(file not found, invalid command\-line options, I/O errors, etc), 2 to +indicate a corrupt or invalid input file, 3 for an internal consistency +error (e.g., bug) which caused plzip to panic. .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs to lzip\-bug@nongnu.org .br @@ -126,12 +127,13 @@ Plzip home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2009 Laszlo Ersek. .br -Copyright \(co 2022 Antonio Diaz Diaz. -Using lzlib 1.13 +Copyright \(co 2024 Antonio Diaz Diaz. 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. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. +Using lzlib 1.14 +Using LZ_API_VERSION = 1014 .SH "SEE ALSO" The full documentation for .B plzip |