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authorAndreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>1998-08-30 09:17:30 +0000
committerAndreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>1998-08-30 09:17:30 +0000
commit4089b6d0343bb4093d2599b2f70d8111e68df5bd (patch)
tree79ff46998816381dee3160b015c52d600f24ebd8 /archivers/bzip
parentadd missing mkdir/dirrm (diff)
add a note to use bzip2 which is faster, more reliable and patent free
this port only stays for compatibility reasons, because bzip2 is unable to unpack bzip archives.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=12919
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diff --git a/archivers/bzip/pkg-descr b/archivers/bzip/pkg-descr
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+++ b/archivers/bzip/pkg-descr
@@ -1,16 +1,12 @@
-Bzip compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler-Fenwick
-block-sorting text compression algorithm.
+Please use bzip2, which is the successor of this older bzip version.
+This port stays for compatibility reasons. For a discussion of the
+advantages of bzip2 over bzip 0.21 see
-Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by
-more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and competitive with
-all but the best of the PPM family of statistical compressors.
+ http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
-BZIP is distributed under the GNU General Public License version
-2; for details, see the file LICENSE. Pointers to the algorithms
-used are in ALGORITHMS.
+In short: bzip2 ist faster, more reliable and *patent free*
-COMMERCIAL USE
-==============
+COMMERCIAL USE of bzip
This program may or may not infringe certain US patents pertaining
to arithmetic coding and to the block-sorting transformation itself.