1*bb75b0d5SLexi Wintercomment = "A block-sorting data compressor" 2*bb75b0d5SLexi Winter 3*bb75b0d5SLexi Winterdesc = <<EOD 4*bb75b0d5SLexi Winterbzip2 compresses data using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text compression 5*bb75b0d5SLexi Winteralgorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better 6*bb75b0d5SLexi Winterthan that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and 7*bb75b0d5SLexi Winterapproaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors. 8*bb75b0d5SLexi WinterEOD 9