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| author | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2010-09-27 23:29:34 +0300 |
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| committer | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2010-09-27 23:29:34 +0300 |
| commit | cec0ddc8ec4ce81685a51998b978e22167e461f9 (patch) | |
| tree | ec8d24147a46b901f215ab3bed6cac17fa0108bc /src/lzmainfo/lzmainfo.1 | |
| parent | Fix the preset -3e. (diff) | |
| download | xz-cec0ddc8ec4ce81685a51998b978e22167e461f9.tar.xz | |
Major man page updates.
Lots of content was updated on the xz man page.
Technical improvements:
- Start a new sentence on a new line.
- Use fairly short lines.
- Use constant-width font for examples (where supported).
- Some minor cleanups.
Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some language fixes.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/lzmainfo/lzmainfo.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/lzmainfo/lzmainfo.1 | 25 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/src/lzmainfo/lzmainfo.1 b/src/lzmainfo/lzmainfo.1 index 235a6b5e..f2b93b4c 100644 --- a/src/lzmainfo/lzmainfo.1 +++ b/src/lzmainfo/lzmainfo.1 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ .\" This file has been put into the public domain. .\" You can do whatever you want with this file. .\" -.TH LZMAINFO 1 "2010-07-28" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils" +.TH LZMAINFO 1 "2010-09-27" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils" .SH NAME lzmainfo \- show information stored in the .lzma file header .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -16,10 +16,12 @@ lzmainfo \- show information stored in the .lzma file header .B lzmainfo shows information stored in the .B .lzma -file header. It reads the first 13 bytes from the specified +file header. +It reads the first 13 bytes from the specified .IR file , decodes the header, and prints it to standard output in human -readable format. If no +readable format. +If no .I files are given or .I file @@ -27,16 +29,19 @@ is .BR \- , standard input is read. .PP -Usually the most interesting information is the uncompressed size and -the dictionary size. Uncompressed size can be shown only if the file is -in the non-streamed +Usually the most interesting information is +the uncompressed size and the dictionary size. +Uncompressed size can be shown only if +the file is in the non-streamed .B .lzma -format variant. The amount of memory required to decompress the file is +format variant. +The amount of memory required to decompress the file is a few dozen kilobytes plus the dictionary size. .PP .B lzmainfo -is included in XZ Utils primarily for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils. -.SH EXIT STATUS +is included in XZ Utils primarily for +backward compatibility with LZMA Utils. +.SH "EXIT STATUS" .TP .B 0 All is good. @@ -51,5 +56,5 @@ while the correct suffix would be .B MiB (2^20 bytes). This is to keep the output compatible with LZMA Utils. -.SH SEE ALSO +.SH "SEE ALSO" .BR xz (1) |