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                 File:  BZip2-0.9.0c-ppc.pkg
           Author:  Michael Griebling (mgriebling@inspired.to)
         Release:  V0.9.0c for BeOS, 9 January 1999
Compatibility:  R3/R4
        Location:  contrib/util
    Description:  Gzip-like utility with much better compression.
             Notes:  Now includes precompiled binaries.
Bzip2  compresses  files  using the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting 
text compression algorithm,  and  Huffman  coding.
Compression  is  generally  considerably  better than that
achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors,
and  approaches  the performance of the PPM family of statistical 
compressors.  It is around twice as fast at compression and six
times faster at decompression than other compressors and it
is patent-free.  This archive includes a pre-compiled version for
BeOS.

The command-line options are deliberately very similar  to
those of GNU Gzip, but they are not identical.

NEW IN 0.9.0.c (vs 0.9.0b)

Fixed some problems in the library pertaining to some boundary cases.
This makes the library behave more correctly in those situations.  The
fixes apply only to features (calls and parameters) not used by
bzip2.c, so the non-fixedness of them in previous versions has no
effect on reliability of bzip2.c.


WHAT'S NEW IN 0.9.0 (as compared to 0.1pl2) ?

   * Approx 10% faster compression, 30% faster decompression
   * -t (test mode) is a lot quicker
   * Can decompress concatenated compressed files
   * Programming interface, so programs can directly read/write .bz2 files
   * Less restrictive (BSD-style) licensing
   * Flag handling more compatible with GNU gzip
   * Much more documentation, i.e., a proper user manual
   * Hopefully, improved portability (at least of the library)
 
I only ported this package to the BeOS so please direct 
your comments and questions to the original author Julian 
Seward at: jseward@acm.org or visit his home page 
at http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
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