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@ -13,6 +13,30 @@ correctly decompress the concatenation of two or more compressed files.
The result is the concatenation of the corresponding decompressed data.
Integrity of such concatenated compressed input is also verified.
The lzip file format is designed for long-term data archiving, taking
into account both data integrity and decoder availability:
* The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data
recovery means. The lziprecover program can repair bit-flip errors
(one of the most common forms of data corruption) in lzip files,
and provides data recovery capabilities, including error-checked
merging of damaged copies of a file.
* The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The
lzip manual provides the code of a simple decompressor along with a
detailed explanation of how it works, so that with the only help of
the lzip manual it would be possible for a digital archaeologist to
extract the data from a lzip file long after quantum computers
eventually render LZMA obsolete.
* Additionally lzip is copylefted, which guarantees that it will
remain free forever.
A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to
repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with
the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a
corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.
The ideas embodied in lzd are due to (at least) the following people:
Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv (for the LZ algorithm), Andrey Markov (for
the definition of Markov chains), G.N.N. Martin (for the definition of
@ -20,7 +44,7 @@ range encoding), and Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in
LZMA).
Copyright (C) 2013 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
Copyright (C) 2013, 2014 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
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distribute and modify it.