Bzip2 Howto
David Fetter,
dfetter@best.com
v1.92, 18 August 1998
This document tells how to use the new bzip2 compression program. The local copy of the sgml at the current site is
here
, and the "author-itative" sgml is
here
.
1.
Introduction
1.1
Revision History
2.
Getting bzip2
2.1 Bzip2-HOWTO in your language
2.2 Getting bzip2 precompiled binaries
2.3 Getting bzip2 sources
2.4 Compiling bzip2 for your machine
3.
Using bzip2 by itself
4.
Using bzip2 with tar
4.1 Easiest to set up:
4.2 Easy to set up, fairly easy to use, no need for root privileges:
4.3 Also easy to use, but needs root access.
5.
Using bzip2 with less
6.
Using bzip2 with emacs
6.1 Changing emacs for everyone:
6.2 Changing emacs for one person:
7.
Using bzip2 with wu-ftpd
8.
Using bzip2 with grep
9.
Using bzip2 with Netscape under the X.
10.
Using bzip2 to recompress other compression formats
