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@Explain more clearly why users might need to install this port.
Mention the fact that bzip2 sometimes compresses less efficiently.
Remove the WWW: line, since the listed site has no information about
this port.  Credit the author for text taken from his README.
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@Use of bzip2, which is intended to replace bzip, is recommended.
The algorithms used in bzip2 are different and incompatible with
those used in bzip.  To open .bz archives, you must use bzip, and
to open .bz2 archives you must use bzip2.  Although bzip2 sometimes
yields slightly larger output, it is faster, more reliable, maintained,
much more widely used and is believed to be patent-free.

Julian Seward, the author of bzip, gives this warning:

	This program may or may not infringe certain US patents
	pertaining to arithmetic coding and to the block-sorting
	transformation itself.  Opinions differ as to the precise
	legal status of some of the algorithms used.  Nevertheless,
	you should be aware that commercial use of this program
	could render you liable to unfriendly legal action.
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@Fix typos and/or cleanup WWW:.
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Please use bzip2, which is the successor of this older bzip version.
This port stays for compatibility reasons.  A discussion of the
advantages of bzip2 over bzip 0.21 is given on the homepage.
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In short: bzip2 is faster, more reliable and *patent free*
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COMMERCIAL USE of bzip

This program may or may not infringe certain US patents pertaining
to arithmetic coding and to the block-sorting transformation itself.
Opinions differ as to the precise legal status of some of the
algorithms used.  Nevertheless, you should be aware that commercial
use of this program could render you liable to unfriendly legal
action.

WWW: http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
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@WWW: Websites We Want:
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In short: bzip2 ist faster, more reliable and *patent free*
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@add a note to use bzip2 which is faster, more reliable and patent free
this port only stays for compatibility reasons, because bzip2 is unable
to unpack bzip archives.
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This port stays for compatibility reasons. For a discussion of the
advantages of bzip2 over bzip 0.21 see

	http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
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algorithms used. Nevertheless, you should be aware that commercial
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@Spelling and grammar police.  This commit brought to you by the
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Bzip compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler-Fenwick
block-sorting text compression algorithm.
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Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by
more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and competitive with
all but the best of the PPM family of statistical compressors.
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BZIP is distributed under the GNU General Public License version
2; for details, see the file LICENSE. Pointers to the algorithms
used are in ALGORITHMS.
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COMMERCIAL USE
==============
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@cosmetic changes, make copyright more informative, add authors
contact address (from README)
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Bzip  compresses  files  using the Burrows-Wheeler-Fenwick
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GREETINGS!
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   This is the README for BZIP, my block-sorting file compressor,
   version 0.21.  

   BZIP is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2;
   for details, see the file LICENSE.  Pointers to the algorithms used
   are in ALGORITHMS. 


COPYRIGHT:

	GNU PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, but see below !

COMMERCIAL USE:

   This program may or may not infringe certain US patents
   pertaining to arithmetic coding and to the block-sorting
   transformation itself.  Opinions differ as to the precise
   legal status of some of the algorithms used.  Nevertheless,
   you should be aware that commercial use of this program
   could render you liable to unfriendly legal action.
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@imported new port of bpatch 0.21, a compression program, that seems to have
some advantages over gzip concerning compression and memory consumption.
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