Oct 2010 18:45:17 -0400   
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   From: madodelDESPAM@DESPAMptdprolog.net   
      
   Paul Smedley has updated bzip2 to v1.0.6. http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/     
      
   http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php?page=bzip   
      
   "bzip2 is a freely available, patent free (see below), high-quality data   
   compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best   
   available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being   
   around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression."   
      
   Download: http://download.smedley.info/bzip-1.0.6-os2-20101012.zip   
   Requires: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip   
   http://download.smedley.info/gcc445.zip   
      
      
   Please let Paul know if you find this software useful.  He needs user   
   feedback to continue work on these projects.  He maintains a bug tracker   
   for many projects at http://mantis.smedley.info  It just requires a simple   
   registration.     
      
      
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   Online Store http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/   
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