Hello,

I really like the simplicity and robustness of lzip, but I think there is a way 
to significantly improve the usability with a very simple change. Currently 
when invoking `lzip -h` the usage text contains all sorts of auxiliary 
information about lzip and it's implementation, it's so long that the actual 
flags I'm looking for get scrolled off the screen. This is all good and useful 
information but it belongs only in the man page or info text. At least for me, 
when I run `somecommand -h` I just want to know or be reminded what the options 
are called. Compare with `gzip -h` and `zstd -h`, they both have just a single 
short line that says what the program does like "Compress or decompress files" 
and then immediately `Usage: ...` and list the option flags, very clean and 
helpful.

What do you think? I can send a diff if you agree.

Thanks for the great software.
Murray.

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