Create BZIP2

VBC#

using IronZip;

// Create an empty BZIP2
using (var archive = new IronBZip2Archive())
{
    // Add a text file to the BZIP2
    archive.Add("./assets/sample.txt");

    // Export the BZIP2 file
    archive.SaveAs("output.txt.bz2");
}

Imports IronZip

' Create an empty BZIP2
Using archive = New IronBZip2Archive()
    ' Add a text file to the BZIP2
    archive.Add("./assets/sample.txt")

    ' Export the BZIP2 file
    archive.SaveAs("output.txt.bz2")
End Using

PM > Install-Package IronZip

Install-Package IronZip

Create BZIP2

BZIP2, a compression format based on the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm, is a file compression utility used in Unix and Linux systems. It efficiently reduces file sizes using the BZIP2 compression algorithm, commonly resulting in smaller files with the .bz2 extension. It is favored for its high compression efficiency and is often used for software distribution and data archiving.

BZIP2 is designed to compress single files and does not serve as a file archiver, which is a software utility used for combining multiple files and directories into a single archive file. BZIP2 is particularly efficient at compressing text data, and decompression is relatively fast.

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