[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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[a063e756] | 6 | <para>bunzip2 (link to bzip2), bzcat (link to bzip2), bzcmp, bzdiff, bzegrep,
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| 7 | bzfgrep, bzgrep, bzip2, 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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[a063e756] | 19 | <sect4><title>bzcmp, bzdiff</title>
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| 20 | <para>bzcmp and bzdiff are used to invoke the cmp or the diff program on
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| 21 | bzip2 compressed files.</para></sect4>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <sect4><title>bzegrep, bzfgrep, bzgrep</title>
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| 24 | <para>bzegrep, bzfgrep, and bzgrep invoke either egrep, fgrep, or grep
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| 25 | (respectively) on bzip2-compressed files.</para></sect4>
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[bdc08c1] | 27 | <sect4><title>bzip2</title>
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[53ad30a] | 28 | <para>bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text
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| 29 | compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally
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| 30 | considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based
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| 31 | compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical
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[bdc08c1] | 32 | compressors.</para></sect4>
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| 34 | <sect4><title>bzip2recover</title>
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| 35 | <para>bzip2recover recovers data from damaged bzip2 files.</para></sect4>
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| 36 |
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[0d970cea] | 37 | <sect4><title>bzless</title>
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| 38 | <para>bzless is a filter which allows examination of compressed
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| 39 | or plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy
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| 40 | terminal, like less.</para></sect4>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <sect4><title>bzmore</title>
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| 43 | <para>bzmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed
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| 44 | or plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy
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| 45 | terminal, like more.</para></sect4>
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[bdc08c1] | 47 | </sect3>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <sect3><title>Library Files</title>
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[a063e756] | 50 | <para>libbz2.a, libbz2.so (link to libbz2.so.1.0), libbz2.so.1.0 (link to
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| 51 | libbz2.so.1.0.2) and libbz2.so.1.0.2</para>
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[bdc08c1] | 52 |
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| 53 | <sect4><title>libbz2</title>
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| 54 | <para>libbz2 is the library for implementing lossless, block-sorting data
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| 55 | compression using the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm.</para></sect4>
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[bdc08c1] | 57 | </sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 58 |
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| 59 | </sect2>
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