1comment = "A block-sorting data compressor" 2 3desc = <<EOD 4bzip2 compresses data using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text compression 5algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better 6than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and 7approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors. 8EOD 9