About:
PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 1.0.2 or newer (ie: anything compressed with PBZIP2 can be decompressed with bzip2).

Author:
Jeff Gilchrist [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://compression.ca/pbzip2/
Tar/GZ:
http://compression.ca/pbzip2/pbzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/pbzip2
OS X package:
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/pbzip2
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freshports.org/archivers/pbzip2

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: BSD License (original)
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows :: Cygwin, OS Independent, POSIX :: HP-UX, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris, Unix
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics, System :: Archiving :: Backup, System :: Archiving :: Compression
[Translations]		English

Dependencies: [change]
bzip2 (required)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.0.2	26-Jul-2007	BSD License (original)