Bzip2
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
+ | * [[Burrows–Wheeler transform]] | ||
* [[bzip]] | * [[bzip]] | ||
== Links == | == Links == | ||
* [[Wikipedia:Bzip2|Wikipedia article]] | * [[Wikipedia:Bzip2|Wikipedia article]] | ||
+ | * [https://twitter.com/angealbertini/status/537704386080694274/photo/1 Chart of format details] | ||
+ | * [https://lwn.net/Articles/762264/ bzip.org changes hands] |
Revision as of 13:12, 9 October 2018
bzip2 is a data compression algorithm and compressed file format.
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Identification
Files begin with bytes 42 5A 68 ?? 31 41 59 26 53 59
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Note that part of the signature is a BCD representation of the digits of π.