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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 is available on most platforms.

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.

bzip2 is built on top of libbzip2, a flexible library for handling compressed data in the bzip2 format.

Resources in This Category

• Bzip2 and Libbzip2

  http://www.bzip.org/
  Offers bzip2 manual describing low-level file application programming interfaces.

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