[795360f] | 1 | <sect2><title>Contents of Bzip2</title>
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| 3 | <para>Last checked against version &bzip2-contversion;</para>
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[6370fa6] | 4 |
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[bdc08c1] | 5 | <sect3><title>Program Files</title>
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[0d970cea] | 6 | <para>bunzip2 (link to bzip2), bzcat (link to bzip2), bzip2,
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| 7 | bzip2recover, bzless and bzmore</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 8 |
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[bdc08c1] | 9 | <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 10 |
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[bdc08c1] | 11 | <sect4><title>bunzip2</title>
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[cf24ff1] | 12 | <para>bunzip2 decompresses files that are compressed with
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[bdc08c1] | 13 | bzip2.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 14 |
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[bdc08c1] | 15 | <sect4><title>bzcat</title>
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[b822811] | 16 | <para>bzcat (or bzip2 -dc) decompresses all specified files to the standard
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[bdc08c1] | 17 | output.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 18 |
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[bdc08c1] | 19 | <sect4><title>bzip2</title>
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[53ad30a] | 20 | <para>bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text
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| 21 | compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally
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| 22 | considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based
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| 23 | compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical
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[bdc08c1] | 24 | compressors.</para></sect4>
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| 26 | <sect4><title>bzip2recover</title>
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| 27 | <para>bzip2recover recovers data from damaged bzip2 files.</para></sect4>
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[0d970cea] | 29 | <sect4><title>bzless</title>
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| 30 | <para>bzless is a filter which allows examination of compressed
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| 31 | or plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy
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| 32 | terminal, like less.</para></sect4>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <sect4><title>bzmore</title>
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| 35 | <para>bzmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed
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| 36 | or plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy
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| 37 | terminal, like more.</para></sect4>
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[bdc08c1] | 39 | </sect3>
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| 41 | <sect3><title>Library Files</title>
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| 42 | <para>libbz2.[a,so]</para>
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| 44 | <sect4><title>libbz2</title>
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| 45 | <para>libbz2 is the library for implementing lossless, block-sorting data
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| 46 | compression using the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm.</para></sect4>
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[bdc08c1] | 48 | </sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 49 |
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| 50 | </sect2>
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| 51 |
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