bzip2 1.0.3
Summary
Description: Very good but slow data compression
Source: http://sourceware.redhat.com/bzip2/
Support
This package is available for all platforms. This package is unsupported and provided on an as-is basis.
Description
bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques, whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.
bzip2 tends to get 15-20% better compression than gzip at the cost of being 4-10 times slower.
Changes
1.0.3 2005-02-17
Fix issues with extracting from corrupted compressed data. Fix compilation on 64 bit platforms and with newer versions of gcc. Fix BZ_NO_STDIO cpp symbol that was not properly observed in 1.0.2.
1.0.2 2002-07-10
Lots of fairly minor bug and documentation fixes, including a fix for one possible permission setting race condition.
Files
Programs: bunzip2 bzcat bzcmp bzdiff bzegrep bzfgrep bzgrep bzip2
bzip2recover bzless bzmore
Libraries: libbz2.a
Includes: bzlib.h
Man Pages: bzcmp(1) bzdiff(1) bzegrep(1) bzfgrep(1) bzgrep(1) bzip2(1)
bzless(1) bzmore(1)
Accuracy
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