wok-next annotate bzip2/description.txt @ rev 20908

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author Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com>
date Sun Aug 12 04:53:45 2018 +0300 (2018-08-12)
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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