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XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with a high compression ratio https://tukaani.org/xz/

Hauke Henningsen 397fcc0946 Update German translation, mostly wrt orthography Provide an update of the German translation. * A lot of compound words were previously written with spaces, while German orthography is relatively clear in that the components should not be separated. * When referring to the actual process of (de)compression rather than the concept, replace “(De-)Kompression” with “(De-)Komprimierung”. Previously, both forms were used in this context and are now used in a manner consistent with “Komprimierung” being more likely to refer to a process. * Consistently translate “standard input”/“output” * Use “Zeichen” instead of false friend “Charakter” for “character” * Insert commas around relative clauses (as required in German) * Some other minor corrections * Capitalize “ß” as “ẞ” * Consistently start option descriptions in --help with capital letters Acked-By: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de> * Update after msgmerge		9 years ago
build-aux	Build: Fix a CR+LF problem when running autoreconf -fi on OS/2.	9 years ago
debug	Avoid variable-length arrays in the debug programs.	9 years ago
doc	Docs: Use lzma_cputhreads() in 04_compress_easy_mt.c.	9 years ago
dos	DOS: Update Makefile.	9 years ago
extra	Collection of language fixes to comments and docs.	14 years ago
lib	Put the interesting parts of XZ Utils into the public domain.	15 years ago
m4	Fix bugs and otherwise improve ax_check_capsicum.m4.	9 years ago
macosx	macosx: separate liblzma package	11 years ago
po	Update German translation, mostly wrt orthography	9 years ago
src	liblzma: A MSVC-specific hack isn't needed with MSVC 2013 and newer.	9 years ago
tests	Tests: Fix a memory leak in test_bcj_exact_size.	9 years ago
windows	Windows: Define DLL_EXPORT when building liblzma.dll with MSVC.	9 years ago
.gitignore	Update .gitignore files.	10 years ago
AUTHORS	Fix a few typos and add some missing articles in some documents.	12 years ago
COPYING	Minor improvements to COPYING.	15 years ago
COPYING.GPLv2	Update the copies of GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 from gnu.org.	14 years ago
COPYING.GPLv3	Imported to git.	17 years ago
COPYING.LGPLv2.1	Update the copies of GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 from gnu.org.	14 years ago
ChangeLog	Updated the git repository address in ChangeLog.	14 years ago
Doxyfile.in	Simplify paths in generated API docs	14 years ago
INSTALL	Windows: Update the docs.	9 years ago
INSTALL.generic	Update INSTALL.generic.	14 years ago
Makefile.am	Build: Include 04_compress_easy_mt.c in the tarball.	9 years ago
NEWS	Fix NEWS about threading in 5.2.0.	9 years ago
PACKAGERS	Update docs.	14 years ago
README	Include debug/translation.bash in the distribution.	12 years ago
THANKS	Update THANKS.	9 years ago
TODO	Update TODO.	10 years ago
autogen.sh	Added a comment about "autoconf -fi" to autogen.sh.	15 years ago
configure.ac	Build: Minor Cygwin cleanup.	9 years ago

README


XZ Utils
========

    0. Overview
    1. Documentation
       1.1. Overall documentation
       1.2. Documentation for command-line tools
       1.3. Documentation for liblzma
    2. Version numbering
    3. Reporting bugs
    4. Translating the xz tool
    5. Other implementations of the .xz format
    6. Contact information


0. Overview
-----------

    XZ Utils provide a general-purpose data-compression library plus
    command-line tools. The native file format is the .xz format, but
    also the legacy .lzma format is supported. The .xz format supports
    multiple compression algorithms, which are called "filters" in the
    context of XZ Utils. The primary filter is currently LZMA2. With
    typical files, XZ Utils create about 30 % smaller files than gzip.

    To ease adapting support for the .xz format into existing applications
    and scripts, the API of liblzma is somewhat similar to the API of the
    popular zlib library. For the same reason, the command-line tool xz
    has a command-line s