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authorobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>2005-05-16 18:31:55 +0000
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@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
This is the README for bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor, version
-1.0.2. This version is fully compatible with the previous public
-releases, versions 0.1pl2, 0.9.0, 0.9.5, 1.0.0 and 1.0.1.
+1.0.3. This version is fully compatible with the previous public
+releases, versions 0.1pl2, 0.9.0, 0.9.5, 1.0.0, 1.0.1 and 1.0.2.
-bzip2-1.0.2 is distributed under a BSD-style license. For details,
+bzip2-1.0.3 is distributed under a BSD-style license. For details,
see the file LICENSE.
Complete documentation is available in Postscript form (manual.ps),
-PDF (manual.pdf, amazingly enough) or html (manual_toc.html). A
-plain-text version of the manual page is available as bzip2.txt.
-A statement about Y2K issues is now included in the file Y2K_INFO.
+PDF (manual.pdf) or html (manual.html). A plain-text version of the
+manual page is available as bzip2.txt. A statement about Y2K issues
+is now included in the file Y2K_INFO.
HOW TO BUILD -- UNIX
@@ -78,8 +78,7 @@ importance. To validate bzip2, I used a modified version of Mark
Nelson's churn program. Churn is an automated test driver which
recursively traverses a directory structure, using bzip2 to compress
and then decompress each file it encounters, and checking that the
-decompressed data is the same as the original. There are more details
-in Section 4 of the user guide.
+decompressed data is the same as the original.
@@ -119,9 +118,9 @@ DISCLAIMER:
PATENTS:
To the best of my knowledge, bzip2 does not use any patented
- algorithms. However, I do not have the resources available to
- carry out a full patent search. Therefore I cannot give any
- guarantee of the above statement.
+ algorithms. However, I do not have the resources to carry out
+ a patent search. Therefore I cannot give any guarantee of the
+ above statement.
End of legalities.
@@ -153,22 +152,26 @@ WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0.2 ?
See the CHANGES file.
+WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0.3 ?
+
+ See the CHANGES file.
+
I hope you find bzip2 useful. Feel free to contact me at
- jseward@acm.org
+ jseward@bzip.org
if you have any suggestions or queries. Many people mailed me with
comments, suggestions and patches after the releases of bzip-0.15,
-bzip-0.21, and bzip2 versions 0.1pl2, 0.9.0, 0.9.5, 1.0.0 and 1.0.1,
-and the changes in bzip2 are largely a result of this feedback.
+bzip-0.21, and bzip2 versions 0.1pl2, 0.9.0, 0.9.5, 1.0.0, 1.0.1 and
+1.0.2, and the changes in bzip2 are largely a result of this feedback.
I thank you for your comments.
At least for the time being, bzip2's "home" is (or can be reached via)
-http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2.
+http://www.bzip.org
Julian Seward
-jseward@acm.org
+jseward@bzip.org
-Cambridge, UK (and what a great town this is!)
+Cambridge, UK.
18 July 1996 (version 0.15)
25 August 1996 (version 0.21)
@@ -178,4 +181,5 @@ Cambridge, UK (and what a great town this is!)
8 June 1999 (bzip2, version 0.9.5)
4 Sept 1999 (bzip2, version 0.9.5d)
5 May 2000 (bzip2, version 1.0pre8)
-30 December 2001 (bzip2, version 1.0.2pre1) \ No newline at end of file
+30 December 2001 (bzip2, version 1.0.2pre1)
+15 February 2005 (bzip2, version 1.0.3)
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