bzip2

bzip2 is a free, open-source file compression program created by Julian Seward that uses the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting algorithm combined with Huffman coding. It typically achieves better compression ratios than gzip at the cost of slower speed and higher memory use. It operates primarily on Unix-like systems and produces files with the .bz2 extension.

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