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  1. Short: BZIP2 compressor 1.0.0 (PPC WarpOS)
  2. Type: util/arc
  3. Author: Jarmo Laakkonen (jami.laakkonen@kolumbus.fi)
  4. Uploader: Jarmo Laakkonen (jami.laakkonen@kolumbus.fi)
  5.  
  6. bzip2  compresses  files  using  the Burrows-Wheeler block
  7. sorting text compression algorithm,  and  Huffman  coding.
  8. Compression  is  generally  considerably  better than that
  9. achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors,
  10. and  approaches  the performance of the PPM family of sta-
  11. tistical compressors.
  12.