Re: OFFTOPIC: Re: bzip2 for kernel dists?

Peter Moulder (reiter@netspace.net.au)
16 Dec 1997 21:23:31 +1100


hm@seneca.muc.de (Harald Milz) writes:

> #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # 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
^
Minor correction: s/K/kB/
I.e. it's in units of 100000 bytes, not 100KB.

> This is i.a.w. bzip.c and bzip2.c.

I haven't looked at bzip2, but this was the case for bzip v1.

pjm.