[Lzip-bug] Lunzip 1.5-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lunzip 1.5-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lunzip-1.5-rc1.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
59e602d067225f20fcf386883de3f71357753e90  lunzip-1.5-rc1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Lunzip is a decompressor for lzip files. It is written in C and its 
small size makes it well suited for embedded devices or software 
installers that need to decompress files but do not need compression 
capabilities. Lunzip is fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lunzip.html


Changes in this version:

  * The new option "-u, --buffer-size", which activates a "low memory" 
decompression mode, has been added.

If the size of the output buffer is specified with the "--buffer-size" 
option, lunzip uses the decompressed file as dictionary for distances 
beyond the buffer size and is able to decompress any file using as 
little memory as 50 kB, irrespective of the dictionary size used to 
compress the file. Of course, the smaller the output buffer size used in 
relation to the dictionary size, the more accesses to disk are needed 
and the slower the decompression is. This "low memory" mode only works 
when decompressing to a regular file.

  * File date, permissions, and ownership are now copied like "cp -p" does.

  * This version is portable to very old hardware. It has been compiled 
and tested on a laptop with a 486 processor and 4MiB of RAM.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lunzip author and maintainer.