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[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.6-pre1 released


From: Antonio Diaz Diaz
Subject: [Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.6-pre1 released
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 11:10:43 +0100
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Plzip 1.6-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.6-pre1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.6-pre1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
b425c1cd77e337732dd23bd296f2c1d1c5db118b  plzip-1.6-pre1.tar.lz
6d374798ed13dfe13efea26b439aeb089388a822  plzip-1.6-pre1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) lossless data compressor based on the lzlib compression library, with a user interface similar to 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 (0.4 to 2 percent larger compressed files). Note that the number of usable threads is limited by file size; 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.

The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html

Changes in this version:

  * The option '-l, --list' has been ported from lziprecover.

* It is now an error to specify two or more different operations in the command line (--decompress, --list or --test).


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.




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