bzip2 and libbzip2

a program and library for data compression

copyright (C) 1996-1998 Julian Seward

version 0.9.0c of 18 October 1998

• Introduction
• How to use bzip2
• Programming with libbzip2
  • Top-level structure
    • Low-level summary
    • High-level summary
    • Utility functions summary
  • Error handling
  • Low-level interface
    • bzCompressInit
    • bzCompress
    • bzCompressEnd
    • bzDecompressInit
    • bzDecompress
    • bzDecompressEnd
  • High-level interface
    • bzReadOpen
    • bzRead
    • bzReadGetUnused
    • bzReadClose
    • bzWriteOpen
    • bzWrite
    • bzWriteClose
    • Handling embedded compressed data streams
    • Standard file-reading/writing code
  • Utility functions
    • bzBuffToBuffCompress
    • bzBuffToBuffDecompress
  • Using the library in a stdio-free environment
    • Getting rid of stdio
    • Critical error handling
  • Making a Windows DLL
• Miscellanea
  • Limitations of the compressed file format
  • Portability issues
  • Reporting bugs
  • Did you get the right package?
  • Testing
  • Further reading

This document was generated on 22 October 1998 using the texi2html translator version 1.51.