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+<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>
+