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diff --git a/doc/plzip.texinfo b/doc/plzip.texinfo index 04bf822..12ac4c8 100644 --- a/doc/plzip.texinfo +++ b/doc/plzip.texinfo @@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ @finalout @c %**end of header -@set UPDATED 24 January 2010 -@set VERSION 0.3 +@set UPDATED 31 January 2010 +@set VERSION 0.4 @dircategory Data Compression @direntry -* Plzip: (plzip). Parallel version of the lzip data compressor +* Plzip: (plzip). Parallel compressor compatible with lzip @end direntry @@ -50,11 +50,13 @@ to copy, distribute and modify it. @chapter Introduction @cindex introduction -Plzip is a parallel version of the lzip data compressor. 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. Currently only compression is performed in -parallel. Parallel decompression is planned to be implemented later. +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. 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 |