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2018-03-28Update the home page URLs to HTTPS.Lasse Collin1-2/+2
2013-06-30Man pages: Use similar syntax for synopsis as in xz.Lasse Collin1-5/+5
The man pages of lzmainfo, xzmore, and xzdec had similar constructs as the man page of xz had before the commit eb6ca9854b8eb9fbf72497c1cf608d6b19d2d494. Eric S. Raymond didn't mention these man pages in his bug report, but it's nice to be consistent.
2010-09-27Major man page updates.Lasse Collin1-12/+27
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.
2010-08-07Disable the memory usage limiter by default.Lasse Collin1-41/+4
For several people, the limiter causes bigger problems that it solves, so it is better to have it disabled by default. Those who want to have a limiter by default need to enable it via the environment variable XZ_DEFAULTS. Support for environment variable XZ_DEFAULTS was added. It is parsed before XZ_OPT and technically identical with it. The intended uses differ quite a bit though; see the man page. The memory usage limit can now be set separately for compression and decompression using --memlimit-compress and --memlimit-decompress. To set both at once, -M or --memlimit can be used. --memory was retained as a legacy alias for --memlimit for backwards compatibility. The semantics of --info-memory were changed in backwards incompatible way. Compatibility wasn't meaningful due to changes in the memory usage limiter functionality. The memory usage limiter info is no longer shown at the bottom of xz --long -help. The memory usage limiter support for removed completely from xzdec. xz's man page was updated to match the above changes. Various unrelated fixes were also made to the man page.
2010-03-07Increase the default memory usage limit on "low-memory" systems.Lasse Collin1-4/+4
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.
2009-07-08Remove --force from xzdec.Lasse Collin1-5/+0
It was ignored for compatibility with xz, but now that --decompress --stdout --force copies unrecognized files as is to stdout, simply ignoring --force in xzdec would be wrong. xzdec will not support copying unrecognized data as is to stdout, so it cannot support --force.
2009-06-04Added xzdec man page.Lasse Collin1-0/+173