According to the author of the Unix Version this archiver
compresses better than all other archivers, and is faster
in both compression and decompression. He seems to be
right, at least as to the much better compression. With my
tests, archived files had only 38% the size of lha-archives
of the same source files. Speed was not very good, though
(maybe because of Contextswitches ?)

Archives are also recoverable.

Note:

In the Amiga Version

- Default -c for bzip2 and default -d for bunzip2 does not
  work for some reason, you have to give the options manually
- compression is done like:

  bzip2 -c filename

  instead of

  bzip2 -c filename >filename.bz2

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                  957    1704  56.2% -lh5- 14fc Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/ALGORITHMS
[generic]                31142  116164  26.8% -lh5- ded5 Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/bzip2.c
[generic]                 6993   17982  38.9% -lh5- dc3e Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/LICENSE
[generic]                  254     594  42.8% -lh5- fd62 Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/Makefile
[generic]                 4444   10021  44.3% -lh5- c908 Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/README
[generic]                32348   32348 100.0% -lh0- 7c5c Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/sample1.bz2
[generic]                73732   73732 100.0% -lh0- ae21 Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/sample2.bz2
[generic]                  119     236  50.4% -lh5- 4b9f Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/test.bat
[generic]                  108     246  43.9% -lh5- d2a3 Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/words0
[generic]                 6501   15670  41.5% -lh5- 0e5e Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/bzip2.1
[generic]                 7585   20559  36.9% -lh5- 2689 Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/bzip2.1.preformatted
[generic]                 7116   19313  36.8% -lh5- 335c Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/bzip2.txt
[generic]                 2899   11056  26.2% -lh5- 706f Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/bzip2recover.c
[generic]                  116     235  49.4% -lh5- 4575 Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/test.cmd
[generic]                   88     104  84.6% -lh5- d92f Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/words1
[generic]                  140     186  75.3% -lh5- 36a9 Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/words2
[generic]                  421     703  59.9% -lh5- 89b4 Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/words3
[generic]                  297     442  67.2% -lh5- 2e78 Aug  3  1998 bzip2-0.1pl2/words3sh
[generic]                34484   82956  41.6% -lh5- 852f Aug  3  1998 bzip2
[generic]                  463     820  56.5% -lh5- 974b Aug  3  1998 bzip2.readme
[generic]                  511    1270  40.2% -lh5- 1c0e Aug  3  1998 bzip2.¶
[generic]                  385     663  58.1% -lh5- 1960 Aug  3  1998 bzip2.¶.info
[generic]                14375   35260  40.8% -lh5- 4880 Aug  3  1998 bzip2rec
[generic]                  516    1311  39.4% -lh5- 6f4a Aug  3  1998 bzip2rec.¶
[generic]                  384     663  57.9% -lh5- e4a9 Aug  3  1998 bzip2rec.¶.info
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total        25 files  226378  444238  51.0%            Oct 31  1998