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@@ -84,6 +84,21 @@ Embedding into userspace applications environment. Probably you should at least skim through it even if the default file works as is. +Supporting concatenated .xz files + + Regular .xz files can be concatenated as is and the xz command line + tool will decompress all streams from a concatenated file (a few + other popular formats and tools support this too). This kind of .xz + files aren't as uncommon as one might think because pxz, an early + threaded XZ compressor, created this kind of .xz files. + + The xz_dec_run() function will stop after decompressing one stream. + This is good when XZ data is stored inside some other file format. + However, if one is decompressing regular standalone .xz files, one + will want to decompress all streams in the file. This is easy with + xz_dec_catrun(). To include support for xz_dec_catrun(), you need + to #define XZ_DEC_CONCATENATED in xz_config.h or in compiler flags. + Integrity check support XZ Embedded always supports the integrity check types None and |