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 ident "@(#)libbz2.3.sunman 1.4 07/04/27 SMI"
 libbz2 3 "8 Oct 1999"
 NAME
libbz2 - library for block-sorting data compression

 SYNOPSIS

 cc  "[ " "flag " \|.\|.\|. ] " "file \|.\|.\|."  -lbz2  "[ " "library" " \|.\|.\|. ]" 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <bzlib.h>



 DESCRIPTION
Interfaces in this library provide the ability to compress (and
decompress) files using the Burrows-Wheeler blocksorting text compression
algorithm, and Huffman coding. It is provided along with the
 bzip2(1) utility.
See
 bzip2(1) for more information.


The source distribution of bzip2 contains a description of how to
use this library in HTML form.


For additional information on shared object interfaces, see
 intro(3). 
 INTERFACES
BZ2_bzCompressInit
BZ2_bzCompress
BZ2_bzCompressEnd
BZ2_bzDecompressInit
BZ2_bzDecompress
BZ2_bzDecompressEnd
BZ2_bzReadOpen
BZ2_bzReadClose
BZ2_bzReadGetUnused
BZ2_bzRead
BZ2_bzWriteOpen
BZ2_bzWrite
BZ2_bzWriteClose
BZ2_bzBuffToBuffCompress
BZ2_bzBuffToBuffDecompress
BZ2_bzlibVersion
BZ2_bzopen
BZ2_bzdopen
BZ2_bzread
BZ2_bzwrite
BZ2_bzflush
BZ2_bzclose



 FILES
 0

 20
/usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
shared object


/usr/lib/sparcv9/libbz2.so.1
64-bit shared object



 "SEE ALSO"
bzip2(1), intro(3)

 AUTHOR
Julian Seward, jseward (at] acm.org.

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2
http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk

The ideas embodied in bzip2 are due to (at least) the fol-
lowing people: Michael Burrows and David Wheeler (for the
block sorting transformation), David Wheeler (again, for
the Huffman coder), Peter Fenwick (for the structured cod-
ing model in the original bzip, and many refinements), and
Alistair Moffat, Radford Neal and Ian Witten (for the
arithmetic coder in the original bzip). I am much
indebted for their help, support and advice. See the man-
ual in the source distribution for pointers to sources of
documentation. Christian von Roques encouraged me to look
for faster sorting algorithms, so as to speed up compres-
sion. Bela Lubkin encouraged me to improve the worst-case
compression performance. Many people sent patches, helped
with portability problems, lent machines, gave advice and
were generally helpful.

 ATTRIBUTES
See
 attributes (5) for descriptions of the following attributes:





ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability SUNWbzip
Interface Stability Committed
 



 NOTES
Source for libbz is available on http://opensolaris.org.


Bare manual page by mike_s (at] Sun.COM.