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diff --git a/system/lrzip/README b/system/lrzip/README index 57f846a7f1..eb8cf52055 100644 --- a/system/lrzip/README +++ b/system/lrzip/README @@ -1,26 +1,26 @@ Long Range ZIP or Lzma RZIP -This is a compression program optimised for large files. The larger the file -and the more memory you have, the better the compression advantage this will -provide, especially once the files are larger than 100MB. The advantage can -be chosen to be either size (much smaller than bzip2) or speed (much faster -than bzip2). +This is a compression program optimised for large files. The larger the +file and the more memory you have, the better the compression advantage +this will provide, especially once the files are larger than 100MB. The +advantage can be chosen to be either size (much smaller than bzip2) or +speed (much faster than bzip2). The major disadvantages are: 1. The main lrzip application only works on single files so it requires the lrztar wrapper to fake a complete archiver. -2. It requires a lot of memory to get the best performance out of, and is not - really usable (for compression) with less than 256MB. Decompression requires - less ram and works on smaller ram machines. +2. It requires a lot of memory to get the best performance out of, and is + not really usable (for compression) with less than 256MB. Decompression + requires less ram and works on smaller ram machines. 3. Only stdin in compression works well. The other combinations of stdin/stdout work but in a very inefficient manner generating temporary files on disk so this method of using lrzip is not recommended. -4. Files compressed on a 64 bit OS with a compression window greater than 20 - (2 GB) may not decompress on a 32 bit OS. +4. Files compressed on a 64 bit OS with a compression window greater than + 20 (2 GB) may not decompress on a 32 bit OS. -See the file README.benchmarks for performance examples and what kind of data -lrzip is very good with. +See the file README.benchmarks for performance examples and what kind of +data lrzip is very good with. NOT BACKWARD COMPATIBLE WARNING -All files created with lrzip 0.50+ are not backward compatible with versions -prior to 0.50. v0.50 can read earlier generated files. +All files created with lrzip 0.50+ are not backward compatible with +versions prior to 0.50. v0.50 can read earlier generated files. |