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Bzip2 mini-HOWTO

David Fetter, david@fetter.org

v2.00, 22 August 1999


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

2. Getting bzip2

3. Using bzip2 by itself

4. Using bzip2 with tar

5. Using bzip2 with less

6. Using bzip2 with emacs

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


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