bzip2 and libbzip2

a program and library for data compression

copyright (C) 1996-1999 Julian Seward

version 0.9.5d of 4 September 1999

• Introduction
• How to use bzip2
  • NAME
  • SYNOPSIS
  • DESCRIPTION
  • OPTIONS
  • MEMORY MANAGEMENT
  • RECOVERING DATA FROM DAMAGED FILES
  • PERFORMANCE NOTES
  • CAVEATS
  • AUTHOR
• Programming with libbzip2
  • Top-level structure
    • Low-level summary
    • High-level summary
    • Utility functions summary
  • Error handling
  • Low-level interface
    • bzCompressInit
    • bzCompress
    • bzCompressEnd
    • bzDecompressInit
    • bzDecompress
    • bzDecompressEnd
  • High-level interface
    • bzReadOpen
    • bzRead
    • bzReadGetUnused
    • bzReadClose
    • bzWriteOpen
    • bzWrite
    • bzWriteClose
    • Handling embedded compressed data streams
    • Standard file-reading/writing code
  • Utility functions
    • bzBuffToBuffCompress
    • bzBuffToBuffDecompress
  • zlib compatibility functions
  • Using the library in a stdio-free environment
    • Getting rid of stdio
    • Critical error handling
  • Making a Windows DLL
• Miscellanea
  • Limitations of the compressed file format
  • Portability issues
  • Reporting bugs
  • Did you get the right package?
  • Testing