[Lzip-bug] Clzip 1.7-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Clzip 1.7-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.7-pre1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.7-pre1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
59cc768fa197d78e0abe29f26b00268524de80ba  clzip-1.7-pre1.tar.lz
7a7b6fa9334d7381f1d9af1b8ce7afe45d32cc34  clzip-1.7-pre1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Clzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the 
one of gzip or bzip2. Clzip is about as fast as gzip, compresses most 
files more than bzip2, and is better than both from a data recovery 
perspective. Clzip is a clean implementation of the LZMA "algorithm".

Clzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by clzip are fully
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. Clzip is in fact a C language version
of lzip, intended for embedded devices or systems lacking a C++ compiler.

The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term data 
archiving. It is clean, provides very safe 4 factor integrity checking, 
and is backed by the recovery capabilities of lziprecover.

A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to 
repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with 
the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a 
corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.

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


Changes in this version:

  * The option "-0", which produces a compression speed and ratio 
comparable to those of gzip, has been ported from lzip.

  * The targets "install-compress", "install-strip-compress", 
"install-info-compress" and "install-man-compress" have been added to 
the Makefile.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, clzip author and maintainer.