[Lzip-bug] Plzip 1.6-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Plzip 1.6-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.6-pre1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip/plzip-1.6-pre1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
b425c1cd77e337732dd23bd296f2c1d1c5db118b  plzip-1.6-pre1.tar.lz
6d374798ed13dfe13efea26b439aeb089388a822  plzip-1.6-pre1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) lossless data compressor 
based on the lzlib compression library, with a user interface similar to 
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.

Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines 
much faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression 
ratio (0.4 to 2 percent larger compressed files). Note that the number 
of usable threads is limited by file size; on files larger than a few GB 
plzip can use hundreds of processors, but on files of only a few MB 
plzip is no faster than lzip.

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.

The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term 
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability.

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

Changes in this version:

  * The option '-l, --list' has been ported from lziprecover.

  * It is now an error to specify two or more different operations in 
the command line (--decompress, --list or --test).


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.