pdlzip/doc/pdlzip.1

.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.37.1.
.TH PDLZIP "1" "January 2012" "Pdlzip 1.3" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
Pdlzip \- reduces the size of files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pdlzip
[\fIoptions\fR] [\fIfile\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Pdlzip \- A "public domain" version of the lzip data compressor
also able to decompress legacy lzma\-alone (.lzma) files.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-stdout\fR
send output to standard output
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-decompress\fR
decompress
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-match\-length=\fR<bytes>
set match length limit in bytes [36]
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
suppress all messages
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-dictionary\-size=\fR<bytes>
set dictionary size limit in bytes [8MiB]
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-test\fR
test compressed file integrity
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
be verbose (a 2nd \fB\-v\fR gives more)
.TP
\fB\-1\fR .. \fB\-9\fR
set compression level [default 6]
.TP
\fB\-\-fast\fR
alias for \fB\-1\fR
.TP
\fB\-\-best\fR
alias for \fB\-9\fR
.PP
If no file name is given, pdlzip compresses or decompresses
from standard input to standard output.
Numbers may be followed by a multiplier: k = kB = 10^3 = 1000,
Ki = KiB = 2^10 = 1024, M = 10^6, Mi = 2^20, G = 10^9, Gi = 2^30, etc...
The bidimensional parameter space of LZMA can't be mapped to a linear
scale optimal for all files. If your files are large, very repetitive,
etc, you may need to use the \fB\-\-match\-length\fR and \fB\-\-dictionary\-size\fR
options directly to achieve optimal performance.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to lzip\-bug@nongnu.org
.br
Pdlzip home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/pdlzip.html
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
Public Domain 2009 Igor Pavlov.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.