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@finalout
@c %**end of header
-@set UPDATED 17 January 2012
-@set VERSION 0.8
+@set UPDATED 1 March 2012
+@set VERSION 0.9
@dircategory Data Compression
@direntry
@@ -102,6 +102,13 @@ the check occurs upon decompression, so it can only tell you that
something is wrong. It can't help you recover the original uncompressed
data.
+WARNING! Even if plzip is bug-free, other causes may result in a corrupt
+compressed file (bugs in the system libraries, memory errors, etc).
+Therefore, if the data you are going to compress is important, give the
+@samp{--keep} option to plzip and do not remove the original file until
+you verify the compressed file with a command like
+@w{@samp{plzip -cd file.lz | cmp file -}}.
+
Return values: 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 (eg, bug) which