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+==================================================================
+lzop -- a very fast file compressor
+==================================================================
+
+Author : Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
+ <markus@oberhumer.com>
+ http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzop/
+Version : 1.03
+Date : 01-Nov-2010
+
+
+Introduction
+------------
+lzop is a file compressor similar to gzip. Its main advantages over gzip
+are much higher compression and decompression speed at the cost of
+some compression ratio.
+
+lzop was designed with the following goals in mind:
+ - speed (both compression and decompression)
+ - reasonable drop-in compatibility to gzip
+ - portability
+
+
+Short documentation
+-------------------
+For detailed usage information please take a look at doc/lzop.txt.
+
+See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.
+
+See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
+
+
+General functionality and behaviour has been modelled very closely
+after gzip. The main differences between lzop and gzip are:
+
+- Files compressed by lzop will have the suffix '.lzo'
+
+- lzop does not delete the input file(s) by default.
+ You have to use the option '-U' if you want this behaviour.
+
+
+lzop uses the LZO data compression library for compression
+services. See http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/ .
+
+
+Directory overview:
+-------------------
+acconfig Autoconf configuration files (UNIX specific)
+B various support files for DOS, Windows, OS/2, ...
+doc documentation in various formats
+src source code
+
+
+Have fun,
+Markus
+