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@ -6,12 +6,9 @@ the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.
Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines
much faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression
ratio. On files large enough (several GB), plzip can use hundreds of
processors. On files of only a few MB it is better to use lzip.
Plzip uses the same well-defined exit status values used by lzip and
bzip2, which makes it safer when used in pipes or scripts than
compressors returning ambiguous warning values, like gzip.
ratio. Note that the number of usable threads is limited by file size,
so on files larger than a few GB plzip can use hundreds of processors,
but on files of only a few MB plzip is no faster than lzip.
Plzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer, and can be rescued with lziprecover.
@ -35,12 +32,27 @@ lziprecover program. Lziprecover makes lzip files resistant to bit-flip
recovery capabilities, including error-checked merging of damaged copies
of a file.
Plzip replaces every file given in the command line with a compressed
version of itself, with the name "original_name.lz". Each compressed
file has the same modification date, permissions, and, when possible,
ownership as the corresponding original, so that these properties can be
correctly restored at decompression time. Plzip is able to read from some
types of non regular files if the "--stdout" option is specified.
Plzip uses the same well-defined exit status values used by lzip and
bzip2, which makes it safer than compressors returning ambiguous warning
values (like gzip) when it is used as a back end for tar or zutils.
When compressing, plzip replaces every file given in the command line
with a compressed version of itself, with the name "original_name.lz".
When decompressing, plzip attempts to guess the name for the decompressed
file from that of the compressed file as follows:
filename.lz becomes filename
filename.tlz becomes filename.tar
anyothername becomes anyothername.out
(De)compressing a file is much like copying or moving it; therefore plzip
preserves the access and modification dates, permissions, and, when
possible, ownership of the file just as "cp -p" does. (If the user ID or
the group ID can't be duplicated, the file permission bits S_ISUID and
S_ISGID are cleared).
Plzip is able to read from some types of non regular files if the
"--stdout" option is specified.
If no file names are specified, plzip compresses (or decompresses) from
standard input to standard output. In this case, plzip will decline to
@ -53,7 +65,7 @@ corresponding uncompressed files. Integrity testing of concatenated
compressed files is also supported.
Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
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