Date:  Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:42:06 -0500
From:  madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: bzip2 v1.0.4 available for OS/2 & eComStation

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From: Paul Smedley <paulDESPAM at DESPAMsmedley.info>

Hi All,

I've just uploaded a binary of bzip2 v1.0.4 to my site at 
http://smedley.info/os2ports

What is bzip2?

bzip2 is a freely available, patent free (see below), high-quality data 
compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best 
available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst 
being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at 
decompression.

The current version is 1.0.4, released 20 December 2006.
Why would I want to use it?

     * Because it compresses well. So it packs more stuff into your 
overfull disk drives, distribution CDs, backup tapes, Zip disks, etc. 
And/or it reduces your phone bills, customer download times, long distance 
network traffic, etc. It's not the world's fastest compressor, but it's 
still fast enough to be very useful.
     * Because it's open-source (BSD-style license), and, as far as I know, 
patent-free. (To the best of my knowledge. I can't afford to do a full 
patent search, so I can't guarantee this. Caveat emptor). So you can use it 
for whatever you like. Naturally, the source code is part of the distribution.
     * Because it supports (limited) recovery from media errors. If you are 
trying to restore compressed data from a backup tape or disk, and that data 
contains some errors, bzip2 may still be able to decompress those parts of 
the file which are undamaged.
     * Because you already know how to use it. bzip2's command line flags 
are similar to those of GNU Gzip, so if you know how to use gzip, you know 
how to use bzip2.
     * Because it's very portable. It should run on any 32 or 64-bit 
machine with an ANSI C compiler. The distribution should compile unmodified 
on Unix and Win32 systems. Earlier versions have been ported with little 
difficulty to a large number of weird and wonderful systems.
     * Because (by now, late 2006) everybody else uses it too.


Any feedback is appreciated to paulDESPAM at DESPAMsmedley.info

Cheers,

Paul

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