Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From: rd5718 AT irix DOT bris DOT ac DOT uk (Rich Dawe)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: bzip2 port to DJGPP
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 00:09:53 GMT
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Hello.

	I ported bzip2 to DJGPP a while ago. I did not write bzip2 - I
just made a couple of changes to compile it with DJGPP.

	bzip2 is a compression program that can obtain higher compression
ratios than pkzip, gzip, etc., but at the cost of speed. It is used for
example in compressing the Linux kernel distributions.

	You can download bzip2 from here:

	http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/3216/mysoft.html#bzip2

It is distributed under the GPL.

	The reason I ported it was to look at the Linux kernel sources
under Windows. bzip2 files with the extension .bz2 are not handled by any
Windows programs to my knowledge. The original bzip2 sources come with a
port to Windows, but this crashed on my system, and won't work under DOS.
The DJGPP version seems to work well ;)

	I hope this is useful to someone.

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         Rich Dawe - 4th-year MSci Physicist @ Bristol University, UK
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