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diff --git a/doc/plzip.texinfo b/doc/plzip.texinfo index 12ac4c8..5cae209 100644 --- a/doc/plzip.texinfo +++ b/doc/plzip.texinfo @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ @finalout @c %**end of header -@set UPDATED 31 January 2010 -@set VERSION 0.4 +@set UPDATED 10 February 2010 +@set VERSION 0.5 @dircategory Data Compression @direntry @@ -50,19 +50,16 @@ to copy, distribute and modify it. @chapter Introduction @cindex 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 @@ -135,8 +132,8 @@ Print the version number of plzip on the standard output and exit. @itemx -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 +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. @item --stdout |