tlug: "bz2" file format?

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Neil Booth writes:
 > 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?
Yes it is a compression format. The program to un/compress is called
bzip2. There are also versions of tar that can directly untar and
unbzip the *.tar.bz2 files. 

Marcus

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