Kbase P102819: What is bzip2?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
16/10/2008 |
|
Status: Unverified
GOAL:
What is bzip2?
GOAL:
How to uncompress bzip2 files.
FACT(s) (Environment):
Windows
UNIX
FIX:
bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), while being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.
To compress a file named foo
syntax: bzip2 foo
To uncompress a file named foo
syntax: bunzip2 foo.bz2