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diff --git a/source/a/bzip2/slack-desc b/source/a/bzip2/slack-desc new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8026e7553 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/a/bzip2/slack-desc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: +# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line +# up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' +# on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must +# make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also +# customary to leave one space after the ':'. + + |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| +bzip2: bzip2 (a block-sorting file compressor) +bzip2: +bzip2: Bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text +bzip2: compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally +bzip2: considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78- +bzip2: based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of +bzip2: statistical compressors. +bzip2: +bzip2: Julian Seward <jseward@acm.org> is the author of bzip2. +bzip2: +bzip2: |