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@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +================================================================== +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 + |