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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-02-15 15:26:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-02-15 15:26:52 +0000 |
| commit | b08f4096533577934b885fa9df41d3881d141612 (patch) | |
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| parent | ad08014624938a3a3bfd1b44e8b27d02c7b06dd8 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/appendixa/bzip2-desc.xml b/appendixa/bzip2-desc.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1bda00d6f --- /dev/null +++ b/appendixa/bzip2-desc.xml @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +<sect2> +<title>Contents</title> + +<para> +The Bzip2 packages contains the bzip2, bunzip2, bzcat and bzip2recover +programs. +</para> + +</sect2> + +<sect2><title>Description</title> + +<sect3><title>Bzip2</title> + +<para> +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. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>Bunzip2</title> + +<para> +Bunzip2 decompresses files that are compressed with bzip2. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>bzcat</title> + +<para> +bzcat (or bzip2 -dc) decompresses all specified files to the standard output. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>bzip2recover</title> + +<para> +bzip2recover recovers data from damaged bzip2 files. +</para> + +</sect3> + +</sect2> + |