Re: tlug: "bz2" file format?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Neil Booth wrote:

> At kernel.org, in addition to .gz files, they have .bz2 files. They tend
> to be about 20% smaller than the .gz files. As such, if they are an
> alternative to the .gz files of the same name, I'd rather download the
> smaller "bz2" files.
> 
> Is "bz2" some new compressed format? If so, how do I uncompress it?

with 'bzip2'.  Keep gzip around, though, I have found cases where gzip
makes a smaller compressed file...

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