From: Paul Smedley <paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info>

¡Hola a todos!,

Acabo de subir un binario de bzip2 v1.0.4 a mi web http://smedley.info/os2ports

¿Qué es bzip2?

bzip2 es un compresor libremente disponible, libre de patentes y de alta calidad. Típicamente comprime archivos entre el 10% al 15% de las mejores técnicas disponibles (la familia PPM de compresores estadísiticos), manteniéndose cerca del doble de rápido en la compresión y seis veces más rápido en la descompresión.

La versión actual es 1.0.4, publicada el 20 de Diciembre 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@DESPAMsmedley.info

Cheers,

Paul