# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' # on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must # make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':'. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| bzip2: bzip2 (a block-sorting file compressor) bzip2: bzip2: Bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text bzip2: compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally bzip2: considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78- bzip2: based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of bzip2: statistical compressors. bzip2: bzip2: Julian Seward is the author of bzip2. bzip2: bzip2: