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| author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Thu May 25 11:14:35 2017 +0200 (2017-05-25) |
| parents | 0c849a954ff9 |
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| al@19561 | 1 bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It |
| al@19561 | 2 typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available |
| al@19561 | 3 techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around |
| al@19561 | 4 twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression. |
| al@19561 | 5 |
| al@19561 | 6 This package contains: |
| al@19561 | 7 |
| al@19561 | 8 * `bzip2` - Compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text |
| al@19561 | 9 compression algorithm with Huffman coding; the compression rate is better |
| al@19561 | 10 than that achieved by more conventional compressors using "Lempel-Ziv" |
| al@19561 | 11 algorithms, like gzip |
| al@19561 | 12 * `bunzip2` - Decompresses bzipped files |
| al@19561 | 13 * `bzcat` - Decompresses to standard output |