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Preferred term

bzip2  

Definition

  • An open source, patent- and royalty-free compression format. The compression algorithm is a Burrows-Wheeler transform followed by a move-to-front transform and finally Huffman coding.

Entry terms

  • bzip2 compressed file

Identifier

  • BZIP2

Notation

  • application/x-bzip2
  • .bz2

In other languages

  • bzip2

    Estonian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/file-type/BZIP2

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