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@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ and decompression functions, including integrity checking of the
decompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the
lzip format. Lzlib is written in C.
The lzip file format is designed for long-term data archiving. It is
clean, provides very safe 4 factor integrity checking, and is backed by
the recovery capabilities of lziprecover.
The functions and variables forming the interface of the compression
library are declared in the file lzlib.h. Usage examples of the library
are given in the files main.c and bbexample.c from the source
@ -31,9 +35,18 @@ any signal handler. The decoder checks the consistency of the compressed
data, so the library should never crash even in case of corrupted input.
Lzlib implements a simplified version of the LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov
chain-Algorithm) algorithm. The original LZMA algorithm was designed by
Igor Pavlov. For a description of the LZMA algorithm, see the Lzip
manual.
chain-Algorithm) algorithm. The high compression of LZMA comes from
combining two basic, well-proven compression ideas: sliding dictionaries
(LZ77/78) and markov models (the thing used by every compression
algorithm that uses a range encoder or similar order-0 entropy coder as
its last stage) with segregation of contexts according to what the bits
are used for.
The ideas embodied in lzlib 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
range encoding), Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in
LZMA), and Julian Seward (for bzip2's CLI).
Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Antonio Diaz Diaz.