Bzip2 mini-HOWTO
David Fetter, david@fetter.org
v2.00, 22 August 1999This 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.
1. Introduction
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
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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