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Subject: Re: What's the ".bz2" ending mean?

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 07:44:24 07/12/03

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On July 12, 2003 at 08:43:27, William Penn wrote:

>I downloaded a couple of files but have not idea how to access them. What's the
>".bz2" ending mean? How do I convert them to text files, etc.?
>WP


bzip2  compression.  Like zip, but produces smaller files usually and is free -
and often costs no money as well.

I use GNU/Linux, which comes with bzip (both bzip and bzip2).

There are probably free Windows bzip2 versions on the net somewhere, maybe even
on Dann's site.

Frank



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