[Lzip-bug] Lzd 1.3 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lzd 1.3.

Lzd is a simplified decompressor for the lzip format with an educational 
purpose. Studying its source code is a good first step to understand how 
lzip works. Lzd is written in C++.

The source code of lzd is used in the lzip manual as a reference 
decompressor in the description of the lzip file format. Reading the lzip 
manual will help you understand the source code. Lzd is compliant with the 
lzip specification; it verifies the 3 integrity factors.

The source code of lzd is also used as a reference in the description of the 
media type 'application/lzip'.
See http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-diaz-lzip

Comments about the internet draft above are solicited and should be 
addressed to the lzip's mailing list at lzip-bug@nongnu.org and/or the 
author. Thanks.

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

The sources can be downloaded from 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzd/

The sha256sums are:
d64fe778b4ed5b797855c12a8d1960781565f9f00298dc0fe0fadc02a56faf83  lzd-1.3.tar.lz
5a52f450b9343508815f9e1fb35c14db37602ac5cd9f8e8ff6743903526d5f34  lzd-1.3.tar.gz


Changes in version 1.3:

  * Lzd now discards the first byte of the LZMA stream explicity (instead 
of shifting 1 extra byte in the initialization of 'code') to make the intent 
clearer.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzd author and maintainer.

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http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html Thanks.