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Package: bzip2

Description: high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities
bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, data compressor.
bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.
The archive file format of bzip2 (.bz2) is incompatible with that of its predecessor, bzip (.bz).
Homepage: https://sourceware.org/bzip2/
copyright | Debian changelog

Manual pages:

bunzip2(1) bzcat(1) bzcmp(1)
bzdiff(1) bzegrep(1) bzexe(1)
bzfgrep(1) bzgrep(1) bzip2(1)
bzip2recover(1) bzless(1) bzmore(1)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/bzip2

Other packages built from the same source:

bzip2-doc libbz2-1.0 libbz2-dev

Manual page search:

Compress::Raw::Bzip2(3perl) IO::Compress::Bzip2(3perl) IO::Uncompress::AnyUncompress(3perl)
IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2(3perl) bzcmp(1) bzdiff(1)
bzegrep(1) bzfgrep(1) bzgrep(1)
bzip2(1) bzip2recover(1) bzless(1)
bzmore(1) lbunzip2(1) lbzcat(1)
lbzip2(1)

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