libbz2 - library for block-sorting data compression

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <bzlib.h>

Interfaces in this library provide the ability to compress (and decompress) files using the Burrows-Wheeler blocksorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. It is provided along with the bzip2(1) utility. See bzip2(1) for more information.

The source distribution of bzip2 contains a description of how to use this library in HTML form.

For additional information on shared object interfaces, see intro(3).

BZ2_bzCompressInit
BZ2_bzCompress
BZ2_bzCompressEnd
BZ2_bzDecompressInit
BZ2_bzDecompress
BZ2_bzDecompressEnd
BZ2_bzReadOpen
BZ2_bzReadClose
BZ2_bzReadGetUnused
BZ2_bzRead
BZ2_bzWriteOpen
BZ2_bzWrite
BZ2_bzWriteClose
BZ2_bzBuffToBuffCompress
BZ2_bzBuffToBuffDecompress
BZ2_bzlibVersion
BZ2_bzopen
BZ2_bzdopen
BZ2_bzread
BZ2_bzwrite
BZ2_bzflush
BZ2_bzclose

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20 /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1 shared object

/usr/lib/64/libbz2.so.1 64-bit shared object

bzip2(1), intro(3) Julian Seward, jseward@acm.org. http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2 http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk The ideas embodied in bzip2 are due to (at least) the fol- lowing people: Michael Burrows and David Wheeler (for the block sorting transformation), David Wheeler (again, for the Huffman coder), Peter Fenwick (for the structured cod- ing model in the original bzip, and many refinements), and Alistair Moffat, Radford Neal and Ian Witten (for the arithmetic coder in the original bzip). I am much indebted for their help, support and advice. See the man- ual in the source distribution for pointers to sources of documentation. Christian von Roques encouraged me to look for faster sorting algorithms, so as to speed up compres- sion. Bela Lubkin encouraged me to improve the worst-case compression performance. Many people sent patches, helped with portability problems, lent machines, gave advice and were generally helpful.