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@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
@finalout
@c %**end of header
-@set UPDATED 19 November 2024
-@set VERSION 1.12-rc1
+@set UPDATED 9 January 2025
+@set VERSION 1.12
@dircategory Compression
@direntry
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ This manual is for Plzip (version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}).
@end menu
@sp 1
-Copyright @copyright{} 2009-2024 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright @copyright{} 2009-2025 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This manual is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute, and modify it.
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ 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 @w{1 MiB} plzip is no faster
-than lzip (even at compression level -0). @xref{Minimum file sizes}.
+than lzip (not even at compression level -0). @xref{Minimum file sizes}.
For creation and manipulation of compressed tar archives
@uref{http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/tarlz_manual.html,,tarlz} can be more
@@ -99,8 +99,7 @@ taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability:
@itemize @bullet
@item
-The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data
-recovery means. The program
+The program
@uref{http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lziprecover_manual.html#Data-safety,,lziprecover}
can repair bit flip errors (one of the most common forms of data corruption)
in lzip files, and provides data recovery capabilities, including
@@ -509,8 +508,7 @@ POSIX recommends these conventions for command-line arguments.
@item Certain options require an argument.
@item 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).
+(In other words, the whitespace separating them is optional).
Thus, @w{@option{-o foo}} and @option{-ofoo} are equivalent.
@item One or more options without arguments, followed by at most one option
@@ -541,11 +539,6 @@ tokens. In the latter case they must be separated by an equal sign @samp{=}.
Thus, @w{@option{--foo bar}} and @option{--foo=bar} are equivalent.
@end itemize
-@noindent
-The syntax of options with an optional argument is
-@option{-<short_option><argument>} (without whitespace), or
-@option{--<long_option>=<argument>}.
-
@node File format
@chapter File format