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  2. <directory>tools
  3. <linkname>bzip2 and libbzip2: a program and library for data compression
  4. <filename>manual.html
  5. <description>
  6. bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting
  7. text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding.  Compression is generally
  8. considerably better than that achieved by more conventional
  9. LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM
  10. family of statistical compressors.
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  12. </description>
  13. </item>
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