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Description
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The lzlib compression library provides in-memory LZMA compression and
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decompression functions, including integrity checking of the
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uncompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the
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lzip format.
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The functions and variables forming the interface of the compression
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library are declared in the file lzlib.h. An usage example of the
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library is given in the file main.cc.
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Compression/decompression is done by repeteadly calling a couple of
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read/write functions until all the data has been processed by the
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library. This interface is safer and less error prone than the
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traditional zlib interface.
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Lzlib will correctly decompress a data stream which is the concatenation
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of two or more compressed data streams. The result is the concatenation
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of the corresponding uncompressed data streams. Integrity testing of
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concatenated compressed data streams is also supported.
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All the library functions are thread safe. The library does not install
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any signal handler. The decoder checks the consistency of the compressed
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data, so the library should never crash even in case of corrupted input.
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Lzlib implements a simplified version of the LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov
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chain-Algorithm) algorithm. The original LZMA algorithm was designed by
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Igor Pavlov. For a description of the LZMA algorithm, see the Lzip
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manual.
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Copyright (C) 2009 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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The file Makefile.in is a data file used by configure to produce the
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Makefile. It has the same copyright owner and permissions that this
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file.
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