Zpaqfranz

# zpaqfranz 65.4

Three headlines:

- **`l` in a fraction of a second on huge archives** (`-filelist`): the history of the archive is kept inside it, and `l` reads just that.
- **`l` is faster anyway**, even without `-filelist`: about 3 times on big listings.
- **`-tar`: zpaqfranz as a tar** on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris: owners, permissions, symlinks, hard links, FIFOs, devices, nanosecond times. Tested field by field against the original tree, and it keeps more than the `tar` of those systems.

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# Part one, what is new, for the user

1. [`-filelist`: `l` in a fraction of a second](#1--filelist-l-in-a-fraction-of-a-second)
2. [`l` is faster anyway](#2-l-is-faster-anyway)
3. [`-tar`: zpaqfranz as a tar (*nix)](#3--tar-zpaqfranz-as-a-tar-nix)
4. [`-turbo N`: how many threads](#4--turbo-n-how-many-threads)
5. [[Smaller things](https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz/releases/new#5-smaller-things)](#5-smaller-things)

## 1. `-filelist`: `l` in a fraction of a second

```
zpaqfranz a z:backup.zpaq c:data -filelist
zpaqfranz l z:backup.zpaq
```

To know what an archive contains, `l` must read the index of **every**
version, from the firs