How to use bzip2?

[lin.chen]

can you tell me how to get and use this utility?
is is has a batter compress rate than others such like unzip,gzip?thanks!

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

bzip2 is available here:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Misc/bzip2-1.0.3/

Details on usage are available in the man page:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Misc/bzip2-1.0.3/man.html

[Steven Schweda]

The source and documentation are available
at:

http://www.bzip.org/

It's used much as gzip is, but the
compression ratio tends to be better.

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,
see also:
http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/

example:
bzip2 -d

Bzip2 is a groovy new algorithm for compressing data. It generally makes files that are 60-70% of the size of their gzip'd counterparts.
(for info see: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Bzip2.html)

source is downloadable from:
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/

hope this helps too!
kind regards
yogeeraj