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bzip2 is a library growing in popularity as an alternative and complement to zip. It offers much higher compression but is slightly slower, though not enough to bother today's computers.

You will also need Frank Wille's PosixLib from Aminet for this build.

My plans for this library are to remove the unnecessary Posix dependencies and also persuade people it can be the OS4 / next generation compression tool of choice, taking the place of Lha. It's main weakness is that the standard bzip2 command only works on one file at a time, it doesn't archive collections of files, and therefore is normally used together with the tar command.

It will compile with SAS/C or GCC and includes a working bzip2 command. The archive contains the original library, including support for non-Amiga platforms, hence the size of the archive and it's beta status. There is no Amiga specific documentation yet either.



http://www.monkeyhouse.eclipse.co.uk/amiga/bzip2-1.0.2.lha