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Bzip2 Howto

How to use the bzip2 compression program

David Fetter

david@fetter.org

Version 2.1 of 10 August 2004

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Getting bzip2

3. Using bzip2

3.1. Using bzip2 by itself

3.2. Using bzip2 with tar

3.2.1. 1. Easiest to setup
3.2.2. 2. Easy to set up, fairly easy to use, no need for root privileges:
3.2.3. 3. Also easy to use, but needs root access

3.3. Using bzip2 with less

3.4. Using bzip2 with emacs

3.4.1. Changing emacs for all users
3.4.2. Changing emacs for one user

3.5. Using bzip2 with wu-ftpd

3.6. Using bzip2 with grep

3.7. Using bzip2 with Netscape under X

4. Using bzip2 to recompress other compression formats

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