Lzip 1.19-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.19-pre1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.19-pre1.tar.gz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzip-1.19-pre1-w32.tar.gz
The sha1sums are:
27f22db2b322404ef9ce05fe310dddcca5ce71ca lzip-1.19-pre1.tar.lz
c32c64a796e76a10d75bdaabbd038f29238ed0c8 lzip-1.19-pre1.tar.gz
ecd7a911f43b4960cf3d9609d158689945392297 lzip-1.19-pre1-w32.tar.gz
Please, test it and report any bugs you find.
Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the
one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0),
or compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip -9). Decompression speed is
intermediate between those of gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip
and bzip2 from a data recovery perspective.
The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability:
* The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data
recovery means. The lziprecover program can repair bit-flip errors
(one of the most common forms of data corruption) in lzip files,
and provides data recovery capabilities, including error-checked
merging of damaged copies of a file.
* The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The
lzip manual provides the source code of a simple decompressor along
with a detailed explanation of how it works, so that with the only
help of the lzip manual it would be possible for a digital
archaeologist to extract the data from a lzip file long after
quantum computers eventually render LZMA obsolete.
* Additionally the lzip reference implementation is copylefted, which
guarantees that it will remain free forever.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.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).
* Compression time of option '-0' has been slightly reduced.
* Decompression time has been reduced by 2%.
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzip author and maintainer.
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