newxml/appendixa/bzip2.xml

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   6 <sect1 id="aa-bzip2" xreflabel="Bzip2">
   7 <title>Bzip2</title>
   8 <?dbhtml filename="bzip2.html"?>
   9
  10 <para>For installation instructions see <xref linkend="ch06-bzip2"/>.</para>
  11
  12 <sect2><title>Official Download Location</title>
  13
  14 <literallayout>Bzip2 (&bzip2-version;):
  15 <ulink url="http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/"/></literallayout>
  16 </sect2>
  17
  18 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="bzip2-contents.xml"/>
  19
  20
  21 <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
  22
  23 <para><command>bunzip2</command> decompresses bzipped files.</para>
  24
  25 <para><command>bzcat</command> decompresses to standard output.</para>
  26
  27 <para><command>bzcmp</command> runs cmp on bzipped files.</para>
  28
  29 <para><command>bzdiff</command> runs diff on bzipped files.</para>
  30
  31 <para><command>bzgrep</command> and friends run grep on bzipped files.</para>
  32
  33 <para><command>bzip2</command> compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler
  34 block sorting text compression algorithm with Huffman coding. The compression
  35 rate is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional
  36 compressors using LZ77/LZ78, like <userinput>gzip</userinput>.</para>
  37
  38 <para><command>bzip2recover</command> tries to recover data from damaged
  39 bzip2 files.</para>
  40
  41 <para><command>bzless</command> runs less on bzipped files.</para>
  42
  43 <para><command>bzmore</command> runs more on bzipped files.</para>
  44
  45 <para><command>libbz2*</command> is the library implementing lossless,
  46 block-sorting data compression, using the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm.</para>
  47
  48 </sect2>
  49
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  51
  52 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="bzip2-deps.xml"/>
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  56 </sect1>