bzip2: bzip2 (a block-sorting file compressor) bzip2: bzip2: Bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text bzip2: compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally bzip2: considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78- bzip2: based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of bzip2: statistical compressors. bzip2: bzip2: Julian Seward is the author of bzip2. bzip2: bzip2: