Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on theLZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checkingand a user interface similar to the one of gzip orbzip2. Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzipand compresses better than bzip2, which makes itwell suited for software distribution and dataarchiving.License: GNU General Public License v3Changes:
The new "--output" option was added, which sendsoutput to a file when reading from standard input.This allows the direct creation of multivolumecompressed tar archives. "testsuite/unzcrash.cc"now tests all 1-byte errors instead of only 1-biterrors.