From a048e3a92d238c65f050a765174d9c75417231d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lasse Collin Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:01:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README: Update outdated sections. --- README | 21 +++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 39267967..8cd07ba0 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -55,9 +55,11 @@ XZ Utils Similarly, it is possible that some day there is a filter that will compress better than LZMA2. - XZ Utils doesn't support multithreaded compression or decompression - yet. It has been planned though and taken into account when designing - the .xz file format. + XZ Utils supports multithreaded compression. XZ Utils doesn't support + multithreaded decompression yet. It has been planned though and taken + into account when designing the .xz file format. In the future, files + that were created in threaded mode can be decompressed in threaded + mode too. 1. Documentation @@ -103,14 +105,13 @@ XZ Utils and data type as Doxygen tags. These docs should be quite OK as a quick reference. - I have planned to write a bunch of very well documented example - programs, which (due to comments) should work as a tutorial to - various features of liblzma. No such example programs have been - written yet. + There are a few example/tutorial programs that should help in + getting started with liblzma. In the source package the examples + are in "doc/examples" and in binary packages they may be under + "examples" in the same directory as this README. - For now, if you have never used liblzma, libbzip2, or zlib, I - recommend learning the *basics* of the zlib API. Once you know that, - it should be easier to learn liblzma. + Since the liblzma API has similarities to the zlib API, some people + may find it useful to read the zlib docs and tutorial too: http://zlib.net/manual.html http://zlib.net/zlib_how.html