1. Introduction

Bzip2 is a groovy new algorithm for compressing data. It generally makes files that are 60-70% of the size of their gzip'd counterparts.

This document will take you through a few common applications for bzip2.

French speakers may wish to refer to Arnaud Launay's French documents. The web version is here, and you can use ftp here Arnaud can be contacted by electronic mail at this address

Japanese speakers may wish to refer to Tetsu Isaji's Japanese documents here. Isaji can be reached at his home page, or by electronic mail at this address.

1.1 Revision History

v1.6 Added TenThumbs' Netscape enabler.

Also changed lesspipe.sh per his sugestion. It should work better now.

v1.5 Added Arnaud Launay's French translation, and his wu-ftpd file.

v1.4 Added Tetsu Isaji's Japanese translation.

v1.3 Added Ulrik Dickow's .emacs for 19.30 and higher.

(Also corrected jka-compr.el patch for emacs per his suggestion. Oops! Bzip2's doesn't yet(?) have an "append" flag.)

v1.2 Changed patch for emacs so it automagically recognizes.bz2 files.

v1.1 Added patch for emacs.

v1.0 Round 1.