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Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
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Description
Lzd is a simplified decompressor for lzip files with an educational
Lzd is a simplified decompressor for the lzip format with an educational
purpose. Studying its source is a good first step to understand how lzip
works. It is not safe to use lzd for any real work.
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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 file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
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
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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.
* Additionally the lzip reference implementation 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
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LZMA).
Copyright (C) 2013, 2014 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
Copyright (C) 2013-2015 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute and modify it.