bzip2.0.9.0.1.README
Dec 14, 1998

This archive contains an Installer.app package for bzip2 (v0.9.0c), port #1.

file:  	bzip2.0.9.0c.1.m.NIS.b.tar.gz
desc:  	for OpenStep for Mach 4.x only
sum:   	14788   127
md5sum:	b771164f317a9dd632ac43009a122be0

probably to be placed at:
http://www.peak.org/openstep/mach/apps/unix/
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/openstep/mach/apps/unix/

From the README:

Bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting text
compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally
considerably better than that achieved by more conventional
LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the
PPM family of statistical compressors. 


PORTING NOTES

Minor Makefile and source code modifications were required to build.
The changes are included in the diff/patch file:
src/bzip2-0.9.0c/bzip2-0.9.0c.patch


CREDITS

bzip2
http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/

Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
Computer System Manager
Universtity of Nebraska-Lincoln 
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/