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<TITLE>bzip2 and libbzip2 - Introduction</TITLE>
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<p>Go to the first, previous, <A HREF="manual_2.html">next</A>, <A HREF="manual_4.html">last</A> section, <A HREF="manual_toc.html">table of contents</A>.
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<H1><A NAME="SEC1" HREF="manual_toc.html#TOC1">Introduction</A></H1>
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<CODE>bzip2</CODE> compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler
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block-sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding.
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Compression is generally considerably better than that
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achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors,
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and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.
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<CODE>bzip2</CODE> is built on top of <CODE>libbzip2</CODE>, a flexible library
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for handling compressed data in the <CODE>bzip2</CODE> format. This manual
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describes both how to use the program and
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how to work with the library interface. Most of the
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manual is devoted to this library, not the program,
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which is good news if your interest is only in the program.
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Chapter 2 describes how to use <CODE>bzip2</CODE>; this is the only part
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you need to read if you just want to know how to operate the program.
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Chapter 3 describes the programming interfaces in detail, and
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Chapter 4 records some miscellaneous notes which I thought
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ought to be recorded somewhere.
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<p>Go to the first, previous, <A HREF="manual_2.html">next</A>, <A HREF="manual_4.html">last</A> section, <A HREF="manual_toc.html">table of contents</A>.
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