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File: bzip2-0.1pl2.zip
Author: Michael Griebling (grieblm@inforamp.net)
Release: V0.1pl2 for BeOS, 27 Sep 1997
Compatibility: PR
Location: contrib/utilities
Description: Gzip-like utility with much better compression.
Notes: Now includes precompiled binaries.
Bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting
text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding.
Compression is generally considerably better than that
achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors,
and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical
compressors. It is around twice as fast at compression and six
times faster at decompression than other compressors and it
is patent-free. This archive includes a pre-compiled version for
BeOS and DOS.
The command-line options are deliberately very similar to
those of GNU Gzip, but they are not identical.
This program is a descendant of the bzip program, version
0.21, which I released in August 1996. The primary difference
of bzip2 is its avoidance of the possibly patented
algorithms which were used in 0.21. bzip2 also brings
various useful refinements (-s, -t), uses less memory,
decompresses significantly faster, and has support for
recovering data from damaged files.
I only ported this package to the BeOS so please direct
your comments and questions to the original author Julian
Seward at: jseward@acm.org or visit his home page
at http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
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