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Introduction to Library Functions                       libbz2(3)



NAME
     libbz2 - library for block-sorting data compression

SYNOPSIS
     cc [ flag ...] file -lbz2 [ library ... ]

     #include 
     #include 

DESCRIPTION
     Interfaces in this library provide the ability  to  compress
     (and  decompress) files using the Burrows-Wheeler blocksort-
     ing 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).

INTERFACES
     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

FILES
     /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
                         shared object
     /usr/lib/sparcv9/libbz2.so.1
                         64-bit shared object




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Introduction to Library Functions                       libbz2(3)



SEE ALSO
     bzip2(1), intro(3)

AUTHOR
     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.

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     _______________________________________
    |   ATTRIBUTE TYPE   |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE|
    |____________________|__________________|_
    | Availability       |  compress/bzip2 |
    |____________________|__________________|_
    | Interface Stability|  Committed      |
    |____________________|_________________|

NOTES
     Source for libbz is available on http://opensolaris.org.

     Bare manual page by mike_s@Sun.COM.














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