[Lzip-bug] Version 0.8-rc1 of plzip released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Version 0.8-rc1 of plzip is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip-0.8-rc1.tar.gz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip-0.8-rc1.tar.lz

The md5sums are:
511f5316c0d740eed72fe3d8b920aa7f  plzip-0.8-rc1.tar.gz
44749128aa748af121b8a6e5b97e2c22  plzip-0.8-rc1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded), lossless data compressor 
based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and a 
user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. Plzip uses the lzip 
file format; the files produced by plzip are fully compatible with 
lzip-1.4 or newer, and can be rescued with lziprecover.

Plzip is intended for faster compression/decompression of big files on 
multiprocessor machines, which makes it specially well suited for 
distribution of big software files and large scale data archiving. On 
files big enough, plzip can use hundreds of processors.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html


Changes in this version:

  * The option "-F, --recompress", which forces recompression of files 
whose name already has the ".lz" or ".tlz" suffix, has been added.

  * The options "-d, --decompress" and "-t, --test" now also show 
compression ratio.

  * Stdin and stdout are now set in binary mode on OS2.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip author and maintainer.