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Description
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Lzd is a simplified decompressor for lzip files with an educational
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Lzd is a simplified decompressor for the lzip format with an educational
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purpose. Studying its source is a good first step to understand how lzip
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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.
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Integrity of such concatenated compressed input is also verified.
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The lzip file format is designed for long-term data archiving, taking
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into account both data integrity and decoder availability:
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The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
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archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder
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availability:
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* The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data
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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
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eventually render LZMA obsolete.
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* Additionally lzip is copylefted, which guarantees that it will
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remain free forever.
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* Additionally the lzip reference implementation is copylefted, which
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guarantees that it will remain free forever.
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A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to
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repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with
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LZMA).
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Copyright (C) 2013, 2014 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
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Copyright (C) 2013-2015 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
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This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
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distribute and modify it.
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