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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.46.1.
-.TH TARLZ "1" "February 2019" "tarlz 0.10a" "User Commands"
+.TH TARLZ "1" "February 2019" "tarlz 0.11" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
tarlz \- creates tar archives with multimember lzip compression
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tarlz
[\fI\,options\/\fR] [\fI\,files\/\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
-Tarlz is a combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip
-compressor. By default tarlz creates, lists and extracts archives in a
-simplified posix pax format compressed with lzip on a per file basis. Each
-tar member is compressed in its own lzip member, as well as the end\-of\-file
-blocks. This method adds an indexed lzip layer on top of the tar archive,
-making it possible to decode the archive safely in parallel. The resulting
-multimember tar.lz archive is fully 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.
+Tarlz is a massively parallel (multi\-threaded) combined implementation of
+the tar archiver and the lzip compressor. Tarlz creates, lists and extracts
+archives in a simplified posix pax format compressed with lzip, keeping the
+alignment between tar members and lzip members. This method adds an indexed
+lzip layer on top of the tar archive, making it possible to decode the
+archive safely in parallel. The resulting multimember tar.lz archive is
+fully 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.
.PP
The tarlz file format is a safe posix\-style backup format. In case of
corruption, tarlz can extract all the undamaged members from the tar.lz
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ change to directory <dir>
use archive file <archive>
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-threads=\fR<n>
-set number of decompression threads [2]
+set number of (de)compression threads [2]
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
suppress all messages
@@ -70,13 +70,13 @@ set compression level [default 6]
create solidly compressed appendable archive
.TP
\fB\-\-bsolid\fR
-create per\-data\-block compressed archive
+create per block compressed archive (default)
.TP
\fB\-\-dsolid\fR
-create per\-directory compressed archive
+create per directory compressed archive
.TP
\fB\-\-no\-solid\fR
-create per\-file compressed archive (default)
+create per file compressed archive
.TP
\fB\-\-solid\fR
create solidly compressed archive