Plzip 1.5-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.5-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.5-rc1.tar.gz
The sha1sums are:
213c4664fe8eeeb72e13348f819d924f64ab67ea plzip-1.5-rc1.tar.lz
4a8fe5c87e7096e65c5699ef176bdcc4d3b8c254 plzip-1.5-rc1.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.
A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to
repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with
the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a
corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html
Changes in this version:
* The option "-a, --trailing-error", which makes plzip exit with
error status 2 if any remaining input is detected after decompressing
the last member, has been added.
* The new chapters "Trailing data" and "Examples" have been added to
the manual.
* A harmless check failure on Windows, caused by the failed
comparison of a message in text mode, has been fixed.
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.
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