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Lasse Collin
e243145c84 xz man page updates.
- Concatenating .xz files and padding
- List mode
- Robot mode
- A few examples (but many more are needed)
2010-06-01 16:02:30 +03:00
Lasse Collin
cf38da00a1 Treat all integer multiplier suffixes as base-2.
Originally both base-2 and base-10 were supported, but since
there seems to be little need for base-10 in XZ Utils, treat
everything as base-2 and also be more relaxed about the case
of the first letter of the suffix. Now xz will accept e.g.
KiB, Ki, k, K, kB, and KB, and interpret them all as 1024. The
recommended spelling of the suffixes are still KiB, MiB, and GiB.
2010-03-07 13:59:32 +02:00
Lasse Collin
2672bcc9f8 Increase the default memory usage limit on "low-memory" systems.
Previously the default limit was always 40 % of RAM. The
new limit is a little bit more complex:

  - If 40 % of RAM is at least 80 MiB, 40 % of RAM is used
    as the limit.

  - If 80 % of RAM is over 80 MiB, 80 MiB is used as the limit.

  - Otherwise 80 % of RAM is used as the limit.

This should make it possible to decompress files created with
"xz -9" on more systems. Swapping is generally more expected
on systems with less RAM, so higher default limit on them
shouldn't cause too bad surprises in terms of heavy swapping.
Instead, the higher default limit should reduce the number of
bad surprises when it used to prevent decompression of files
created with "xz -9". The DoS prevention system shouldn't be
a DoS itself.

Note that even with the new default limit, a system with 64 MiB
RAM cannot decompress files created with "xz -9" without user
overriding the limit. This should be OK, because if xz is going
to need more memory than the system has RAM, it will run very
very slowly and thus it's good that user has to override the limit
in that case.
2010-03-07 13:29:28 +02:00
Lasse Collin
eb7d51a3fa Collection of language fixes to comments and docs.
Thanks to Jonathan Nieder.
2010-02-12 13:16:15 +02:00
Lasse Collin
37f31ead9d Update the xz man page to match the previous two commits. 2010-01-15 11:05:11 +02:00
Lasse Collin
465d1b0d65 Create sparse files by default when decompressing into
a regular file.

Sparse file creation can be disabled with --no-sparse.
I don't promise yet that the name of this option won't
change before 5.0.0. It's possible that the code, that
checks when it is safe to use sparse output on stdout,
is not good enough, and a more flexible command line
option is needed to configure sparse file handling.
2009-11-25 11:19:20 +02:00
Lasse Collin
d315ca4930 Add support for --info-memory and --robot to xz.
Currently --robot works only with --info-memory and
--version. --help and --long-help work too, but --robot
has no effect on them.

Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for the original patches.
2009-11-16 18:16:45 +02:00
Lasse Collin
2ddcae247c Some updates to xz man page. 2009-11-14 20:20:03 +02:00
Lasse Collin
c8c184db1c Update xz man page date. 2009-08-27 17:08:33 +03:00
Lasse Collin
2341437719 Some xz man page improvements. 2009-08-27 15:17:00 +03:00
Lasse Collin
fe111a25cd Some xz man changes. 2009-08-17 22:45:50 +03:00
Lasse Collin
180bdf58ea Fix first line of xz man page. 2009-08-13 09:37:01 +03:00
Lasse Collin
e1ce2291e7 Added a rough version of the xz man page. 2009-08-10 11:22:31 +03:00