From 4d540bfc95a4b0eefc1d1f388ec33534aaeb3a2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julian Seward Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:13:13 +0100 Subject: bzip2-1.0.3 --- bzip2.1 | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'bzip2.1') diff --git a/bzip2.1 b/bzip2.1 index 623435c..d2c0661 100644 --- a/bzip2.1 +++ b/bzip2.1 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ .PU .TH bzip2 1 .SH NAME -bzip2, bunzip2 \- a block-sorting file compressor, v1.0.2 +bzip2, bunzip2 \- a block-sorting file compressor, v1.0.3 .br bzcat \- decompresses files to stdout .br @@ -405,19 +405,19 @@ I/O error messages are not as helpful as they could be. tries hard to detect I/O errors and exit cleanly, but the details of what the problem is sometimes seem rather misleading. -This manual page pertains to version 1.0.2 of +This manual page pertains to version 1.0.3 of .I bzip2. Compressed data created by this version is entirely forwards and backwards compatible with the previous public releases, versions -0.1pl2, 0.9.0, 0.9.5, 1.0.0 and 1.0.1, but with the following +0.1pl2, 0.9.0, 0.9.5, 1.0.0, 1.0.1 and 1.0.2, but with the following exception: 0.9.0 and above can correctly decompress multiple concatenated compressed files. 0.1pl2 cannot do this; it will stop after decompressing just the first file in the stream. .I bzip2recover -versions prior to this one, 1.0.2, used 32-bit integers to represent -bit positions in compressed files, so it could not handle compressed -files more than 512 megabytes long. Version 1.0.2 and above uses +versions prior to 1.0.2 used 32-bit integers to represent +bit positions in compressed files, so they could not handle compressed +files more than 512 megabytes long. Versions 1.0.2 and above use 64-bit ints on some platforms which support them (GNU supported targets, and Windows). To establish whether or not bzip2recover was built with such a limitation, run it without arguments. In any event @@ -427,9 +427,9 @@ with MaybeUInt64 set to be an unsigned 64-bit integer. .SH AUTHOR -Julian Seward, jseward@acm.org. +Julian Seward, jsewardbzip.org. -http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2 +http://www.bzip.org The ideas embodied in .I bzip2 @@ -447,6 +447,7 @@ source distribution for pointers to sources of documentation. Christian von Roques encouraged me to look for faster sorting algorithms, so as to speed up compression. Bela Lubkin encouraged me to improve the worst-case compression performance. +Donna Robinson XMLised the documentation. The bz* scripts are derived from those of GNU gzip. Many people sent patches, helped with portability problems, lent machines, gave advice and were generally -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g6feb