wrotycz escribió:

>
> In the source file that decompresses from a regular file to stdout
> (dec_stdout.cc) the block size is defined in line 41:
>
>    enum { max_packet_size = 1 << 20 };
>
>
> I was talking about lzip. I found the references to dictionary size and
> thought it will be trivial to change it, and see of it changes anything,
> but it is not. Definitely not trivial.
>
> AFAIK, dictionary size is fixed for each compressed file and can't be
changed because it has to be the same dictionary size that was used in the
compression. See
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#File-format

Maybe a misunderstanding in all this conversation about block sizes is that
lzip is a (de)compressor while plzip is just a "data block manager" which
sends and receives blocks to/from the real (de)compressor (lzlib).

Cheers,
Sonia

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