Uploaded bzip 0.21-1 (source i386) to ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de
Du to possible patent problems, I'm uploading bzip to the debian-non-US
archive on ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de
bzip is a (generally) much better though slower compressor than gzip.
bzip uses the Burrows-Wheeler-Fenwick block-sorting text compression
algorithm, which achieves usually much better results than the LZ77/LZ78
based compressors. Of course it is much slower than gzip and needs a lot
of memory for compressing and decompressing.
The algorithm uses arithmetic coding, so there might be problems with a
patent in the USA.
Helmut
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Format: 1.5
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:25:47 +0200
Source: bzip
Binary: bzip
Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.21-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
Description:
bzip - a block-sorting file compressor
Changes:
bzip (0.21-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* new package bzip. Just added the debian package files
Files:
394897f9aa99b192e86d15fe8ed1b323 605 misc optional bzip_0.21-1.dsc
0867236c96b44111cfc9415f51434987 324890 misc optional bzip_0.21.orig.tar.gz
8a138840da366afe69c11ec0c92edd45 3003 misc optional bzip_0.21-1.diff.gz
ea46dd102e564b6be9a073bfcd076c42 33314 misc optional bzip_0.21-1_i386.deb
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Helmut Geyer Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
public PGP key available : finger geyer@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
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