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diff --git a/doc/plzip.info b/doc/plzip.info index c4dc967..dc6526d 100644 --- a/doc/plzip.info +++ b/doc/plzip.info @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ File: plzip.info, Node: Top, Next: Introduction, Up: (dir) 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: @@ -34,19 +34,16 @@ File: plzip.info, Node: Introduction, Next: Invoking Plzip, Prev: Top, Up: T 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' @@ -306,10 +303,10 @@ Concept Index Tag Table: 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 End Tag Table |