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See below for "what's new in 0.9.5". 0.9.5 is an improvement over
0.1pl2 and 0.9.0, but the file format is unchanged, so the three versions
should interwork fine.
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<P>First off, here are some executables I've collected. I hope to
expand this list over time. Please read the notes on executables
(about half a screenful down from here) before downloading. You might
<LI>
<A HREF="ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/v095/bzip2095d_win32.exe">PC,
-Windows 95/98/NT</A>. I don't know if this executable works on Windows
-2000.</LI>
+Windows 95/98/2000/NT</A>.</LI>
<LI>
-<A HREF="ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/v095/bzip2-095d-sparc-solaris26">
-Sun Sparc, Solaris 2.6</A></LI>
+<A HREF="ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/v095/bzip2-095d-sparc-solaris26">Sun
+Sparc, Solaris 2.6</A></LI>
+<LI>
+<A HREF="ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/v095/bzip2-095d-ibm-aix42">IBM RS/6000,
+AIX 4.2</A></LI>
</UL>
Since 0.9.5 is new, I don't actually have any other executables for it
yet. The following collection is for 0.9.0.
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If your machine isn't listed here, there might be a version 0.1pl2 executable
available for it. See below.
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<P>Rename the file you've got to plain "bzip2" (or "bzip2.exe"), and use
it.
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<P>To decompress a .bz2 file, do "bzip2 -d my_file.bz2". Remember,
the one program does both compression and decompression. To get decompression
by default, copy "bzip2.exe" to "bunzip2.exe", or symlink "bzip2" to "bunzip2".
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<P>Some notes on executables:
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<LI>
And last, but definitely not least, <A HREF="ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/v095/bzip2-0.9.5d.tar.gz">here's
the source code</A>, including full documentation. For the paranoid,
here are some MD5 sums:
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<P><TT> 11fe7b9615eb84326712cb41671a7103 v01pl2/bzip2-0.1pl2.tar.gz</TT>
<BR><TT> 29993af5282e817fafc5a76b4e0c98fa v090/bzip2-0.9.0c.tar.gz</TT>
<BR><TT> 8a3f6d1d9e4072bb3c7aeae6578ae6ca v095/bzip2-0.9.5d.tar.gz</TT>
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<P>If you can be bothered, please <A HREF="mailto:jseward@acm.org">email
me </A>to say you've got a copy. It's nice to know where this
stuff gets to.
Here's the <A HREF="ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/docs/manual_toc.html">HTML</A>
version of the complete manual, unfortunately lacking the license page
due to some oddity of texi2html. And here's the <A HREF="ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/docs/manual.ps">postscript</A>.
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<P>Many people have asked about Y2K issues in bzip2. <A HREF="ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/docs/Y2K_INFO">Here</A>'s
a short statement.
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<LI>
A Y2K statement.</LI>
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<A NAME="bzip2-090"></A>What's new in 0.9.0 ?</H2>
0.9.0 is the first public version since 0.1pl2. The central feature
is now merely a wrapper on top of the library. I've also incorporated
various small speedups, functionality enhancements and portability things
-- mostly stuff that was frequently requested in your feedback.
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<P>Note that the .bz2 file format is unchanged, so 0.9.0 is fully forwards
and backwards compatible with 0.1pl2.
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<P>Specific changes:
<UL>
<LI>
You probably want to look in this section only if you're looking for an
executable for some machine wierd machine not listed (yet) in the 0.9.5
section.
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<P>For source code and docs, click <A HREF="ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/v01pl2/bzip2-0.1pl2.tar.gz">here.</A>
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<P>Alternatively, if you just want a binary, here are some:
<UL>
<LI>
Unix 5.0.4</A></LI>
</UL>
Thanks to Nelson Beebe (beebe@math.utah.edu) for many of these.
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<P>See the section about for general comments about downloading and use
of executables.
<BR>
relevant flags are -y or --bzip2 or --bunzip2. From Kevin Ivory and
David Fetter and modified by Thomas Bucholz. Several other people
also sent patches; thank you for them.
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<P>David Fetter maintains a <A HREF="http://fetter.org/Bzip2-HOWTO/Bzip2-HOWTO.html">bzip2-HOWTO</A>
document.
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major platforms. Perhaps you'd care to give it a spin. We've
just released version 4.04 of our compiler and supporting tools.
It's open source. Naturally.
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<P>In the more distant past, I worked for five years on parallelising compilers
for functional languages at the<A HREF="http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/"> University
of Manchester</A>, UK. I'm a big fan of <A HREF="http://www.haskell.org/">Haskell</A>,
an elegant and useful functional language. Getting a bit bored with
C? Try doing some lazy functional programming in Haskell. It'll
change the way you think about programming. Permanently.
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<P>I'm a member of the<A HREF="http://www.acm.org/"> ACM</A>, which I think
is a fine organisation. You can reach me by <A HREF="mailto:jseward@acm.org">email
through ACM,</A> or via a <A HREF="mailto:Julian_Seward@muraroa.demon.co.uk">more
direct route.</A>
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<P>Julian Seward (jseward@acm.org).
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<P>Last updated Thursday 9 September 1999.
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