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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.46.1.
-.TH XLUNZIP "1" "September 2018" "xlunzip 0.4" "User Commands"
+.TH XLUNZIP "1" "April 2020" "xlunzip 0.5" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
xlunzip \- test tool for the lzip_decompress linux module
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ corrupted data.
Note that the in\-place decompression of concatenated files can't be
guaranteed to work because an arbitrarily low compression ratio of the
last part of the data can be achieved by appending enough empty
-compressed members to a file.
+compressed members to a file, masking a high compression ratio at the
+beginning of the data.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
@@ -74,6 +75,9 @@ from standard input to standard output.
Numbers may be followed by a multiplier: k = kB = 10^3 = 1000,
Ki = KiB = 2^10 = 1024, M = 10^6, Mi = 2^20, G = 10^9, Gi = 2^30, etc...
.PP
+To extract all the files from archive 'foo.tar.lz', use the commands
+\&'tar \fB\-xf\fR foo.tar.lz' or 'xlunzip \fB\-cd\fR foo.tar.lz | tar \fB\-xf\fR \-'.
+.PP
Exit status: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems (file
not found, invalid flags, I/O errors, etc), 2 to indicate a corrupt or
invalid input file, 3 for an internal consistency error (eg, bug) which
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@ Report bugs to lzip\-bug@nongnu.org
.br
Xlunzip home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xlunzip.html
.SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 2018 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright \(co 2020 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
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.