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annotate bzip2/description.txt @ rev 21687
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Mon Jun 29 17:11:21 2020 +0100 (2020-06-29) |
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1 bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It
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2 typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available
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3 techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around
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4 twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.
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6 This package contains:
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8 * `bzip2` - Compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text
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9 compression algorithm with Huffman coding; the compression rate is better
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10 than that achieved by more conventional compressors using "Lempel-Ziv"
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11 algorithms, like gzip
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12 * `bunzip2` - Decompresses bzipped files
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13 * `bzcat` - Decompresses to standard output
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