Short: A fast file compression tool Author: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer, AmigaOS 4.x compile by Spot / Up Rough Uploader: Varthall / Up Rough Type: util/arc Version: 1.02rc1 Architecture: ppc-amigaos >= 4.0.5 ================================================================== lzop -- a very fast file compressor ================================================================== Author : Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzop/ Version : 1.02rc1 Date : 27-Apr-2003 Introduction ------------ lzop is a file compressor similar to gzip. Its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed at the cost of some compression ratio. lzop was designed with the following goals in mind: - speed (both compression and decompression) - reasonable drop-in compatibility to gzip - portability Short documentation ------------------- For detailed usage information please take a look at doc/lzop.txt. See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release. See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions. General functionality and behaviour has been modelled very closely after gzip. The main differences between lzop and gzip are: - Files compressed by lzop will have the suffix `.lzo' - lzop does not delete the input file(s) by default. You have to use the option `-U' if you want this behaviour. lzop uses the LZO data compression library for compression services. See http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/ . Directory overview: ------------------- acconfig Autoconf configuration files (UNIX specific) B various support files for DOS, Windows, OS/2, ... doc documentation in various formats src source code Have fun, Markus