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diff --git a/docs/man/borg-compression.1 b/docs/man/borg-compression.1
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--- a/docs/man/borg-compression.1
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@@ -54,14 +54,14 @@ Use lz4 compression. High speed, low compression. (default)
.TP
.B zlib[,L]
Use zlib ("gz") compression. Medium speed, medium compression.
-If you do not explicitely give the compression level L (ranging from 0
+If you do not explicitly give the compression level L (ranging from 0
to 9), it will use level 6.
Giving level 0 (means "no compression", but still has zlib protocol
overhead) is usually pointless, you better use "none" compression.
.TP
.B lzma[,L]
Use lzma ("xz") compression. Low speed, high compression.
-If you do not explicitely give the compression level L (ranging from 0
+If you do not explicitly give the compression level L (ranging from 0
to 9), it will use level 6.
Giving levels above 6 is pointless and counterproductive because it does
not compress better due to the buffer size used by borg \- but it wastes