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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ lzlib. Tarlz creates tar archives using a simplified and safer variant of the POSIX pax format compressed in lzip format, keeping the alignment between tar -members and lzip members. The resulting multimember tar.lz archive is fully +members and lzip members. The resulting multimember tar.lz archive is backward compatible with standard tar tools like GNU tar, which treat it like any other tar.lz archive. Tarlz can append files to the end of such compressed archives. @@ -61,14 +61,14 @@ large, making undetected corruption and archiver misbehavior more probable. Headers and metadata must be protected separately from data because the integrity checking of lzip may not be able to detect the corruption before -the metadata has been used, for example, to create a new file in the wrong +the metadata have been used, for example, to create a new file in the wrong place. Because of the above, tarlz protects the extended records with a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) in a way compatible with standard tar tools. -Tarlz does not understand other tar formats like gnu, oldgnu, star or v7. -The command 'tarlz -tf archive.tar.lz > /dev/null' can be used to verify +Tarlz does not understand other tar formats like gnu, oldgnu, star, or v7. +The command 'tarlz -t -f archive.tar.lz > /dev/null' can be used to check that the format of the archive is compatible with tarlz. The diagram below shows the correspondence between each tar member (formed @@ -87,11 +87,10 @@ tar.lz +===============+=================================================+========+ -Copyright (C) 2013-2022 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright (C) 2013-2024 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute, and modify it. -The file Makefile.in is a data file used by configure to produce the -Makefile. It has the same copyright owner and permissions that configure -itself. +The file Makefile.in is a data file used by configure to produce the Makefile. +It has the same copyright owner and permissions that configure itself. |