From 3b6a991863be64d009e1b700561526e2ecfcd98d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:29:07 +0100 Subject: Adding upstream version 1.10. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- README | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index ad008c2..75e8968 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -5,13 +5,14 @@ compatible with lzip 1.4 or newer. Plzip uses the compression library lzlib. Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of the 'Lempel-Ziv-Markov -chain-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format, chosen to maximize safety and -interoperability. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0) or -compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip -9). Decompression speed is -intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 from -a data recovery perspective. Lzip has been designed, written, and tested -with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard general-purpose -compressed format for unix-like systems. +chain-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format and provides a 3 factor integrity +checking to maximize interoperability and optimize safety. Lzip can compress +about as fast as gzip (lzip -0) or compress most files more than bzip2 +(lzip -9). Decompression speed is intermediate between gzip and bzip2. +Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 from a data recovery perspective. Lzip +has been designed, written, and tested with great care to replace gzip and +bzip2 as the standard general-purpose compressed format for unix-like +systems. Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines much faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression ratio (0.4 @@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ filename.lz becomes filename filename.tlz becomes filename.tar anyothername becomes anyothername.out -(De)compressing a file is much like copying or moving it; therefore plzip +(De)compressing a file is much like copying or moving it. Therefore plzip preserves the access and modification dates, permissions, and, when possible, ownership of the file just as 'cp -p' does. (If the user ID or the group ID can't be duplicated, the file permission bits S_ISUID and @@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ been compressed. Decompressed is used to refer to data which have undergone the process of decompression. -Copyright (C) 2009-2021 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright (C) 2009-2022 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute, and modify it. -- cgit v1.2.3