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Plzip Manual
************
-This manual is for Plzip (version 1.12-rc1, 19 November 2024).
+This manual is for Plzip (version 1.12, 9 January 2025).
* Menu:
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ This manual is for Plzip (version 1.12-rc1, 19 November 2024).
* Concept index:: Index of concepts
- Copyright (C) 2009-2024 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+ Copyright (C) 2009-2025 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This manual is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute, and modify it.
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression ratio (0.4
to 2 percent larger compressed files). Note that the number of usable
threads is limited by file size; on files larger than a few GB plzip can use
hundreds of processors, but on files smaller than 1 MiB plzip is no faster
-than lzip (even at compression level -0). *Note Minimum file sizes::.
+than lzip (not even at compression level -0). *Note Minimum file sizes::.
For creation and manipulation of compressed tar archives tarlz can be
more efficient than using tar and plzip because tarlz is able to keep the
@@ -70,12 +70,10 @@ alignment between tar members and lzip members. *Note tarlz manual:
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 program lziprecover can repair bit flip errors
- (one of the most common forms of data corruption) in lzip files, and
- provides data recovery capabilities, including error-checked merging
- of damaged copies of a file. *Note Data safety: (lziprecover)Data
- safety.
+ * The program lziprecover can repair bit flip errors (one of the most
+ common forms of data corruption) in lzip files, and provides data
+ recovery capabilities, including error-checked merging of damaged
+ copies of a file. *Note Data safety: (lziprecover)Data safety.
* The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The lzip
manual provides the source code of a simple decompressor along with a
@@ -458,9 +456,8 @@ POSIX recommends these conventions for command-line arguments.
* Certain options require an argument.
* An option and its argument may or may not appear as separate tokens.
- (In other words, the whitespace separating them is optional, unless the
- argument is the empty string). Thus, '-o foo' and '-ofoo' are
- equivalent.
+ (In other words, the whitespace separating them is optional). Thus,
+ '-o foo' and '-ofoo' are equivalent.
* One or more options without arguments, followed by at most one option
that takes an argument, may follow a hyphen in a single token. Thus,
@@ -487,10 +484,6 @@ GNU adds "long options" to these conventions:
tokens. In the latter case they must be separated by an equal sign '='.
Thus, '--foo bar' and '--foo=bar' are equivalent.
-The syntax of options with an optional argument is
-'-<short_option><argument>' (without whitespace), or
-'--<long_option>=<argument>'.
-

File: plzip.info, Node: File format, Next: Program design, Prev: Argument syntax, Up: Top
@@ -853,22 +846,22 @@ Concept index

Tag Table:
Node: Top217
-Node: Introduction1207
-Node: Output5956
-Node: Invoking plzip7519
-Ref: --trailing-error8365
-Ref: --data-size8603
-Node: Argument syntax19941
-Node: File format21886
-Ref: coded-dict-size23386
-Node: Program design24637
-Node: Memory requirements26933
-Node: Minimum file sizes28643
-Node: Trailing data30648
-Node: Examples32991
-Ref: concat-example34420
-Node: Problems35174
-Node: Concept index35729
+Node: Introduction1201
+Node: Output5860
+Node: Invoking plzip7423
+Ref: --trailing-error8269
+Ref: --data-size8507
+Node: Argument syntax19845
+Node: File format21609
+Ref: coded-dict-size23109
+Node: Program design24360
+Node: Memory requirements26656
+Node: Minimum file sizes28366
+Node: Trailing data30371
+Node: Examples32714
+Ref: concat-example34143
+Node: Problems34897
+Node: Concept index35452

End Tag Table