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\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
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@c %**start of header
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@setfilename plzip.info
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@settitle Plzip Manual
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@finalout
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@c %**end of header
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@set UPDATED 5 December 2009
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@set VERSION 0.1
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@dircategory Data Compression
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@direntry
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* Plzip: (plzip). Parallel version of the lzip data compressor
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@end direntry
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@titlepage
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@title Plzip
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@subtitle A data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm
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@subtitle for Plzip version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}
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@author by Antonio Diaz Diaz
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@page
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@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
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@end titlepage
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@contents
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@node Top
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@top
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This manual is for Plzip (version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}).
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@menu
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* Introduction:: Purpose and features of plzip
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* Invoking Plzip:: Command line interface
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* File Format:: Detailed format of the compressed file
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* Problems:: Reporting bugs
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* Concept Index:: Index of concepts
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@end menu
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@sp 1
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Copyright @copyright{} 2008, 2009 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
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This manual is free documentation: you have unlimited permission
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to copy, distribute and modify it.
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@node Introduction
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@chapter Introduction
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@cindex introduction
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Plzip is a parallel version of the lzip data compressor. Currently only
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compression is performed in parallel. Parallel decompression is planned
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to be implemented soon.
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Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with
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very safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of
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gzip or bzip2. Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses
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better than bzip2, which makes it well suited for software distribution
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and data archiving.
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Plzip replaces every file given in the command line with a compressed
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version of itself, with the name "original_name.lz". Each compressed
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file has the same modification date, permissions, and, when possible,
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ownership as the corresponding original, so that these properties can be
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correctly restored at decompression time. Plzip is able to read from some
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types of non regular files if the @samp{--stdout} option is specified.
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If no file names are specified, plzip compresses (or decompresses) from
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standard input to standard output. In this case, plzip will decline to
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write compressed output to a terminal, as this would be entirely
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incomprehensible and therefore pointless.
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Plzip will correctly decompress a file which is the concatenation of two
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or more compressed files. The result is the concatenation of the
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corresponding uncompressed files. Integrity testing of concatenated
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compressed files is also supported.
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When decompressing, plzip attempts to guess the name for the decompressed
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file from that of the compressed file as follows:
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@multitable {anyothername} {becomes} {anyothername.out}
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@item filename.lz @tab becomes @tab filename
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@item filename.tlz @tab becomes @tab filename.tar
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@item anyothername @tab becomes @tab anyothername.out
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@end multitable
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As a self-check for your protection, plzip stores in the member trailer
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the 32-bit CRC of the original data and the size of the original data,
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to make sure that the decompressed version of the data is identical to
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the original. This guards against corruption of the compressed data, and
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against undetected bugs in plzip (hopefully very unlikely). The chances
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of data corruption going undetected are microscopic, less than one
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chance in 4000 million for each member processed. Be aware, though, that
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the check occurs upon decompression, so it can only tell you that
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something is wrong. It can't help you recover the original uncompressed
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data.
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Return values: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems (file
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not found, invalid flags, I/O errors, etc), 2 to indicate a corrupt or
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invalid input file, 3 for an internal consistency error (eg, bug) which
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caused plzip to panic.
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@node Invoking Plzip
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@chapter Invoking Plzip
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@cindex invoking
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@cindex options
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@cindex usage
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@cindex version
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The format for running plzip is:
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@example
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plzip [@var{options}] [@var{files}]
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@end example
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Plzip supports the following options:
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@table @samp
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@item --help
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@itemx -h
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Print an informative help message describing the options and exit.
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@item --version
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@itemx -V
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Print the version number of plzip on the standard output and exit.
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@item --stdout
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@itemx -c
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Compress or decompress to standard output. Needed when reading from a
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named pipe (fifo) or from a device.
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@item --decompress
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@itemx -d
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Decompress.
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@item --force
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@itemx -f
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Force overwrite of output file.
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@item --keep
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@itemx -k
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Keep (don't delete) input files during compression or decompression.
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@item --match-length=@var{length}
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@itemx -m @var{length}
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Set the match length limit in bytes. Valid values range from 5 to 273.
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Larger values usually give better compression ratios but longer
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compression times.
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@item --output=@var{file}
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@itemx -o @var{file}
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When reading from standard input and @samp{--stdout} has not been
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specified, use @samp{@var{file}} as the virtual name of the uncompressed
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file. This produces a file named @samp{@var{file}} when decompressing,
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and a file named @samp{@var{file}.lz} when compressing.
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@item --quiet
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@itemx -q
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Quiet operation. Suppress all messages.
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@item --dictionary-size=@var{size}
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@itemx -s @var{size}
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Set the dictionary size limit in bytes. Valid values range from 4KiB to
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512MiB. Note that dictionary sizes are quantized. If the specified size
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does not match one of the valid sizes, it will be rounded upwards.
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@item --test
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@itemx -t
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Check integrity of the specified file(s), but don't decompress them.
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This really performs a trial decompression and throws away the result.
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Use @samp{-tvv} or @samp{-tvvv} to see information about the file.
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@item --verbose
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@itemx -v
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Verbose mode. Show the compression ratio for each file processed.
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Further -v's increase the verbosity level.
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@item -1 .. -9
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Set the compression parameters (dictionary size and match length limit)
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as shown in the table below. Note that @samp{-9} can be much slower than
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@samp{-1}. These options have no effect when decompressing.
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@multitable {Level} {Dictionary size} {Match length limit}
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@item Level @tab Dictionary size @tab Match length limit
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@item -1 @tab 1MiB @tab 10 bytes
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@item -2 @tab 1MiB @tab 12 bytes
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@item -3 @tab 1MiB @tab 17 bytes
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@item -4 @tab 2MiB @tab 26 bytes
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@item -5 @tab 4MiB @tab 44 bytes
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@item -6 @tab 8MiB @tab 80 bytes
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@item -7 @tab 16MiB @tab 108 bytes
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@item -8 @tab 16MiB @tab 163 bytes
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@item -9 @tab 32MiB @tab 273 bytes
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@end multitable
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@item --fast
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@itemx --best
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Aliases for GNU gzip compatibility.
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@end table
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@sp 1
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Numbers given as arguments to options may be followed by a multiplier
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and an optional @samp{B} for "byte".
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Table of SI and binary prefixes (unit multipliers):
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@multitable {Prefix} {kilobyte (10^3 = 1000)} {|} {Prefix} {kibibyte (2^10 = 1024)}
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@item Prefix @tab Value @tab | @tab Prefix @tab Value
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@item k @tab kilobyte (10^3 = 1000) @tab | @tab Ki @tab kibibyte (2^10 = 1024)
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@item M @tab megabyte (10^6) @tab | @tab Mi @tab mebibyte (2^20)
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@item G @tab gigabyte (10^9) @tab | @tab Gi @tab gibibyte (2^30)
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@item T @tab terabyte (10^12) @tab | @tab Ti @tab tebibyte (2^40)
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@item P @tab petabyte (10^15) @tab | @tab Pi @tab pebibyte (2^50)
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@item E @tab exabyte (10^18) @tab | @tab Ei @tab exbibyte (2^60)
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@item Z @tab zettabyte (10^21) @tab | @tab Zi @tab zebibyte (2^70)
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@item Y @tab yottabyte (10^24) @tab | @tab Yi @tab yobibyte (2^80)
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@end multitable
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@node File Format
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@chapter File Format
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@cindex file format
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In the diagram below, a box like this:
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@verbatim
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+---+
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+---+
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@end verbatim
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represents one byte; a box like this:
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@verbatim
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+==============+
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+==============+
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@end verbatim
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represents a variable number of bytes.
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@sp 1
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A lzip file consists of a series of "members" (compressed data sets).
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The members simply appear one after another in the file, with no
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additional information before, between, or after them.
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Each member has the following structure:
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@verbatim
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+--+--+--+--+----+----+=============+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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| ID string | VN | DS | Lzma stream | CRC32 | Data size | Member size |
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+--+--+--+--+----+----+=============+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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@end verbatim
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All multibyte values are stored in little endian order.
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@table @samp
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@item ID string
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A four byte string, identifying the member type, with the value "LZIP".
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@item VN (version number, 1 byte)
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Just in case something needs to be modified in the future. Valid values
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are 0 and 1. Version 0 files have only one member and lack @samp{Member
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size}.
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@item DS (coded dictionary size, 1 byte)
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Bits 4-0 contain the base 2 logarithm of the base dictionary size.@*
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Bits 7-5 contain the number of "wedges" to substract from the base
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dictionary size to obtain the dictionary size. The size of a wedge is
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(base dictionary size / 16).@*
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Valid values for dictionary size range from 4KiB to 512MiB.
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@item Lzma stream
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The lzma stream, finished by an end of stream marker. Uses default values
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for encoder properties.
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@item CRC32 (4 bytes)
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CRC of the uncompressed original data.
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@item Data size (8 bytes)
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Size of the uncompressed original data.
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@item Member size (8 bytes)
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Total size of the member, including header and trailer. This facilitates
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safe recovery of undamaged members from multimember files.
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@end table
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@node Problems
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@chapter Reporting Bugs
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@cindex bugs
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@cindex getting help
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There are probably bugs in plzip. There are certainly errors and
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omissions in this manual. If you report them, they will get fixed. If
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you don't, no one will ever know about them and they will remain unfixed
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for all eternity, if not longer.
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If you find a bug in plzip, please send electronic mail to
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@email{lzip-bug@@nongnu.org}. Include the version number, which you can
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find by running @w{@samp{plzip --version}}.
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@node Concept Index
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@unnumbered Concept Index
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@printindex cp
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@bye
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