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Bzip2 mini-HOWTO

David Fetter, david@fetter.org

v2.00, 22 August 1999

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This document tells how to use the new bzip2 compression program. The local copy of the sgml at the current site is here , and the "author-itative" sgml is here .

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1. Introduction

• 1.1 Revision History

2. Getting bzip2

• 2.1 Bzip2-HOWTO in your language
• 2.2 Getting bzip2 precompiled binaries
• 2.3 Getting bzip2 sources
• 2.4 Compiling bzip2 for your machine

3. Using bzip2 by itself

4. Using bzip2 with tar

• 4.1 Easiest to set up:
• 4.2 Easy to set up, fairly easy to use, no need for root privileges:
• 4.3 Also easy to use, but needs root access.

5. Using bzip2 with less

6. Using bzip2 with emacs

• 6.1 Changing emacs for everyone:
• 6.2 Changing emacs for one person:

7. Using bzip2 with wu-ftpd

8. Using bzip2 with grep

9. Using bzip2 with Netscape under the X.

10. Using bzip2 to recompress other compression formats

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