Applications
BZIP2: Applications
Julian Seward provides a command line application for Unix (Linux, BSD) and Windows. Additionally a large variety of other operating systems are supported by the freeware project maintained by him. His webpages provide corresponding links.
Beyond that, BZIP2 is specified as a part of the "ZIP Application Notes" as published by PKWARE. Several applications support BZIP2 or ZIP files with BZIP2 as a compression method, at least for decoding.
| Application | Enc | Dec | Annotation |
|---|---|---|---|
| bzip2 bunzip2 |
yes | yes | by Julian Seward; Freeware; Open Source; command line version; bases on libbzip2; only BZIP2 file format; see external link BZIP2 |
| 7-Zip | yes | yes | by Igor Pavlov; Freeware; Open Source; supports both BZIP2 file format and BZIP2 within ZIP; see external link 7-Zip |
| StuffIt 8.5 | yes | yes | supports both BZIP2 file format and BZIP2 within ZIP |
| WinRAR 3.41 | no | yes | no support for BZIP2 within ZIP ("unknown method") |
| WinZip 9.0 | no | yes | only decoding within ZIP; no support for BZIP file format |
Arbitrary plattforms may be supported easily because all substantial functions are available in the ANSI-C library libbzip2.
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External Links: BinaryEssence is not responsible BZIP2, LIBBZIP2 (at Red Hat Sourceware) 7-Zip |
