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+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This program, "bzip2", the associated library "libbzip2", and all
+documentation, are copyright (C) 1996-2010 Julian R Seward. All
+rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+are met:
+
+1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+ notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must
+ not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this
+ software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product
+ documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
+
+3. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must
+ not be misrepresented as being the original software.
+
+4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote
+ products derived from this software without specific prior written
+ permission.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS
+OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
+WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE
+GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
+INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
+WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
+NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
+SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+Julian Seward, jseward@bzip.org
+bzip2/libbzip2 version 1.0.6 of 6 September 2010
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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+
+This is the README for bzip2/libzip2.
+This version is fully compatible with the previous public releases.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+This file is part of bzip2/libbzip2, a program and library for
+lossless, block-sorting data compression.
+
+bzip2/libbzip2 version 1.0.6 of 6 September 2010
+Copyright (C) 1996-2010 Julian Seward <jseward@bzip.org>
+
+Please read the WARNING, DISCLAIMER and PATENTS sections in this file.
+
+This program is released under the terms of the license contained
+in the file LICENSE.
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Complete documentation is available in Postscript form (manual.ps),
+PDF (manual.pdf) or html (manual.html). A plain-text version of the
+manual page is available as bzip2.txt.
+
+
+HOW TO BUILD -- UNIX
+
+Type 'make'. This builds the library libbz2.a and then the programs
+bzip2 and bzip2recover. Six self-tests are run. If the self-tests
+complete ok, carry on to installation:
+
+To install in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/man and
+/usr/local/include, type
+
+ make install
+
+To install somewhere else, eg, /xxx/yyy/{bin,lib,man,include}, type
+
+ make install PREFIX=/xxx/yyy
+
+If you are (justifiably) paranoid and want to see what 'make install'
+is going to do, you can first do
+
+ make -n install or
+ make -n install PREFIX=/xxx/yyy respectively.
+
+The -n instructs make to show the commands it would execute, but not
+actually execute them.
+
+
+HOW TO BUILD -- UNIX, shared library libbz2.so.
+
+Do 'make -f Makefile-libbz2_so'. This Makefile seems to work for
+Linux-ELF (RedHat 7.2 on an x86 box), with gcc. I make no claims
+that it works for any other platform, though I suspect it probably
+will work for most platforms employing both ELF and gcc.
+
+bzip2-shared, a client of the shared library, is also built, but not
+self-tested. So I suggest you also build using the normal Makefile,
+since that conducts a self-test. A second reason to prefer the
+version statically linked to the library is that, on x86 platforms,
+building shared objects makes a valuable register (%ebx) unavailable
+to gcc, resulting in a slowdown of 10%-20%, at least for bzip2.
+
+Important note for people upgrading .so's from 0.9.0/0.9.5 to version
+1.0.X. All the functions in the library have been renamed, from (eg)
+bzCompress to BZ2_bzCompress, to avoid namespace pollution.
+Unfortunately this means that the libbz2.so created by
+Makefile-libbz2_so will not work with any program which used an older
+version of the library. I do encourage library clients to make the
+effort to upgrade to use version 1.0, since it is both faster and more
+robust than previous versions.
+
+
+HOW TO BUILD -- Windows 95, NT, DOS, Mac, etc.
+
+It's difficult for me to support compilation on all these platforms.
+My approach is to collect binaries for these platforms, and put them
+on the master web site (http://www.bzip.org). Look there. However
+(FWIW), bzip2-1.0.X is very standard ANSI C and should compile
+unmodified with MS Visual C. If you have difficulties building, you
+might want to read README.COMPILATION.PROBLEMS.
+
+At least using MS Visual C++ 6, you can build from the unmodified
+sources by issuing, in a command shell:
+
+ nmake -f makefile.msc
+
+(you may need to first run the MSVC-provided script VCVARS32.BAT
+ so as to set up paths to the MSVC tools correctly).
+
+
+VALIDATION
+
+Correct operation, in the sense that a compressed file can always be
+decompressed to reproduce the original, is obviously of paramount
+importance. To validate bzip2, I used a modified version of Mark
+Nelson's churn program. Churn is an automated test driver which
+recursively traverses a directory structure, using bzip2 to compress
+and then decompress each file it encounters, and checking that the
+decompressed data is the same as the original.
+
+
+
+Please read and be aware of the following:
+
+WARNING:
+
+ This program and library (attempts to) compress data by
+ performing several non-trivial transformations on it.
+ Unless you are 100% familiar with *all* the algorithms
+ contained herein, and with the consequences of modifying them,
+ you should NOT meddle with the compression or decompression
+ machinery. Incorrect changes can and very likely *will*
+ lead to disastrous loss of data.
+
+
+DISCLAIMER:
+
+ I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA ARISING FROM THE
+ USE OF THIS PROGRAM/LIBRARY, HOWSOEVER CAUSED.
+
+ Every compression of a file implies an assumption that the
+ compressed file can be decompressed to reproduce the original.
+ Great efforts in design, coding and testing have been made to
+ ensure that this program works correctly. However, the complexity
+ of the algorithms, and, in particular, the presence of various
+ special cases in the code which occur with very low but non-zero
+ probability make it impossible to rule out the possibility of bugs
+ remaining in the program. DO NOT COMPRESS ANY DATA WITH THIS
+ PROGRAM UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED TO ACCEPT THE POSSIBILITY, HOWEVER
+ SMALL, THAT THE DATA WILL NOT BE RECOVERABLE.
+
+ That is not to say this program is inherently unreliable.
+ Indeed, I very much hope the opposite is true. bzip2/libbzip2
+ has been carefully constructed and extensively tested.
+
+
+PATENTS:
+
+ To the best of my knowledge, bzip2/libbzip2 does not use any
+ patented algorithms. However, I do not have the resources
+ to carry out a patent search. Therefore I cannot give any
+ guarantee of the above statement.
+
+
+
+WHAT'S NEW IN 0.9.0 (as compared to 0.1pl2) ?
+
+ * Approx 10% faster compression, 30% faster decompression
+ * -t (test mode) is a lot quicker
+ * Can decompress concatenated compressed files
+ * Programming interface, so programs can directly read/write .bz2 files
+ * Less restrictive (BSD-style) licensing
+ * Flag handling more compatible with GNU gzip
+ * Much more documentation, i.e., a proper user manual
+ * Hopefully, improved portability (at least of the library)
+
+WHAT'S NEW IN 0.9.5 ?
+
+ * Compression speed is much less sensitive to the input
+ data than in previous versions. Specifically, the very
+ slow performance caused by repetitive data is fixed.
+ * Many small improvements in file and flag handling.
+ * A Y2K statement.
+
+WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0.0 ?
+
+ See the CHANGES file.
+
+WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0.2 ?
+
+ See the CHANGES file.
+
+WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0.3 ?
+
+ See the CHANGES file.
+
+WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0.4 ?
+
+ See the CHANGES file.
+
+WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0.5 ?
+
+ See the CHANGES file.
+
+WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0.6 ?
+
+ See the CHANGES file.
+
+
+I hope you find bzip2 useful. Feel free to contact me at
+ jseward@bzip.org
+if you have any suggestions or queries. Many people mailed me with
+comments, suggestions and patches after the releases of bzip-0.15,
+bzip-0.21, and bzip2 versions 0.1pl2, 0.9.0, 0.9.5, 1.0.0, 1.0.1,
+1.0.2 and 1.0.3, and the changes in bzip2 are largely a result of this
+feedback. I thank you for your comments.
+
+bzip2's "home" is http://www.bzip.org/
+
+Julian Seward
+jseward@bzip.org
+Cambridge, UK.
+
+18 July 1996 (version 0.15)
+25 August 1996 (version 0.21)
+ 7 August 1997 (bzip2, version 0.1)
+29 August 1997 (bzip2, version 0.1pl2)
+23 August 1998 (bzip2, version 0.9.0)
+ 8 June 1999 (bzip2, version 0.9.5)
+ 4 Sept 1999 (bzip2, version 0.9.5d)
+ 5 May 2000 (bzip2, version 1.0pre8)
+30 December 2001 (bzip2, version 1.0.2pre1)
+15 February 2005 (bzip2, version 1.0.3)
+20 December 2006 (bzip2, version 1.0.4)
+10 December 2007 (bzip2, version 1.0.5)
+ 6 Sept 2010 (bzip2, version 1.0.6)
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