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-.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.46.1.
-.TH TARLZ "1" "July 2020" "tarlz 0.17" "User Commands"
+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.16.
+.TH TARLZ "1" "January 2021" "tarlz 0.19" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
tarlz \- creates tar archives with multimember lzip compression
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -7,13 +7,15 @@ tarlz \- creates tar archives with multimember lzip compression
[\fI\,options\/\fR] [\fI\,files\/\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
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 and safer variant of the POSIX pax format
-compressed with lzip, keeping the alignment between tar members and lzip
-members. 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.
+the tar archiver and the lzip compressor. Tarlz uses the compression library
+lzlib.
+.PP
+Tarlz creates, lists, and extracts archives in 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 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
Keeping the alignment between tar members and lzip members has two
advantages. It adds an indexed lzip layer on top of the tar archive, making
@@ -126,6 +128,9 @@ exit with error status if missing extended CRC
.TP
\fB\-\-out\-slots=\fR<n>
number of 1 MiB output packets buffered [64]
+.TP
+\fB\-\-check\-lib\fR
+compare version of lzlib.h with liblz.{a,so}
.PP
Exit status: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems (file not
found, files differ, invalid flags, I/O errors, etc), 2 to indicate a
@@ -136,8 +141,8 @@ Report bugs to lzip\-bug@nongnu.org
.br
Tarlz home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/tarlz.html
.SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 2020 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
-Using lzlib 1.12\-rc1a
+Copyright \(co 2021 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Using lzlib 1.12
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.