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bzip2 for Debian
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The archive file format of bzip2 (.bz2) is incompatible with that of its
predecessor, bzip (.bz). If you need to extract old *.bz files,
please also install the Debian package "bzip".
For more information about bzip2, please visit its home page at:
http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
Another note: If you wish to do "file somefile.bz2", you might find the
following magic numbers helpful:
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# bzip & bzip2
0 string BZ bzip compressed file
>2 string h - bzip2 format
>2 string 0 - old (obsolete) bzip format
>3 byte x - Blocksize: %c00 K
These values were copied from a helpful message in the linux-kernel
mailing list. However, they are not "official" and might change
in the near future before making their way into the Debian /etc/magic
file. Until then, experiment and have fun! :-)
Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>, Tue, 6 Jan 1998 01:38:20 -0700
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