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author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Mon Apr 13 10:11:04 2020 +0100 (2020-04-13) |
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1.1 --- a/bzip2/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 1.2 +++ b/bzip2/description.txt Mon Apr 13 10:11:04 2020 +0100 1.3 @@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ 1.4 -bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It 1.5 -typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques 1.6 -(the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast 1.7 -at compression and six times faster at decompression. 1.8 +bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It 1.9 +typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available 1.10 +techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around 1.11 +twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression. 1.12 + 1.13 +This package contains: 1.14 + 1.15 + * `bzip2` - Compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text 1.16 + compression algorithm with Huffman coding; the compression rate is better 1.17 + than that achieved by more conventional compressors using "Lempel-Ziv" 1.18 + algorithms, like gzip 1.19 + * `bunzip2` - Decompresses bzipped files 1.20 + * `bzcat` - Decompresses to standard output