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Plzip Manual
************
-This manual is for Plzip (version 0.4, 31 January 2010).
+This manual is for Plzip (version 0.5, 10 February 2010).
* Menu:
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1 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
@@ -112,9 +109,9 @@ The format for running plzip is:
`-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 dictionary size.
+ Valid values 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.
`--stdout'
`-c'
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Node: Top223
-Node: Introduction746
-Node: Invoking Plzip3669
-Node: File Format7358
-Node: Problems9314
-Node: Concept Index9843
+Node: Introduction747
+Node: Invoking Plzip3489
+Node: File Format7178
+Node: Problems9134
+Node: Concept Index9663

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