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This is the first release of bzip2 version 0.1 patch level 2 for RISC
OS. bzip2 is a lossless compression program in the same style as gzip.
It requires a lot of memory to run but typically achieves considerably
better compression ratios than gzip. It is becoming increasingly
popular in the Unix community. bzip2 is distributed under the terms of
the GNU General Public Licence, see the file COPYING for details.
There is currently no wimp front end for bzip2. There is also no
sprite file available.
To install bzip2, if you have an Acorn-style boot sequence, you may
simply run the !Install script. If not, then copy `bzip2' to somewhere
on your Run$Path, and ensure that the lines in `RunMe' are executed at
boot time.
Now when you doubleclick on compressed files, they will be decompressed.
Note that it spawns a taskwindow to do this so you can continue to do
other things while it decompresses. As distributed, it runs in `small'
mode and only requires a 2428k wimpslot. If you have the RAM to spare,
you may wish to edit the RunMe file.
To compress files, you will have to invoke bzip2 from the command line.
The `Docs' file is the Unix documentation which is mostly accurate, but
I have made some alterations to bzip2 to make it more suitable for RISC
OS. Compressed files have filetype &16E instead of being given a `.bz2'
extension. Unfortunately, the file format does not permit me to store
the original filetype within the file. I'm currently negotiating with
the author to work out a scheme that would permit this.
There is a bug in UnixLib 3.7b which will not allow you to access files
that contain a `/' in their name. Work around this bug by renaming the
file. Any other bugs, please let me know.
The original source code is available from
http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/. The Patch file contains a unified
diff format patch from the pl2 source which is currently available on
the source website. I think this discharges my legal & moral
obligations under the GPL.
May the entropy of your files be maximised.
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>