I am pleased to announce the release of pdlzip 1.8.
Pdlzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.
Pdlzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by pdlzip are
(hope)fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer.
The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability.
Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma-alone (.lzma) files.
Lzma-alone is a very bad format; it is essentially a raw LZMA stream. If
you keep any lzma-alone files, it is advisable to recompress them to
lzip format. Lziprecover can convert some lzma-alone files to lzip
format without recompressing.
Pdlzip includes public domain (de)compression code from the LZMA SDK
(Software Development Kit) written by Igor Pavlov. Pdlzip is in fact a
permissively licensed implementation of the lzip data compressor,
intended for those who can't distribute (or even use) GPL licensed Free
Software.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/pdlzip.html
The sources can be downloaded from
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/
The sha256sums are:
c6e168bb66aaf7bdbc7c25f53c398081937eb31e757069c1859b3f5ae2f3d7cc
pdlzip-1.8.tar.lz
05af84a34aaac66c96d34e4935ecfde3717b535d0980211981ba4c539f92cee5
pdlzip-1.8.tar.gz
This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by
appending '.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because
you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742
Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739 FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742
Changes in version 1.8:
* In test mode, pdlzip now continues checking the rest of the files
if any input file is a terminal.
* Trailing data shorter than a lzip header are now also reported.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to [email protected]
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip co-author and maintainer.
--
If you are distributing software in xz format, please consider using
lzip instead. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#busybox
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