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.
If you'd like to help support continued development of this
project (and many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider
making a donation either via Paypal using the link on Paul's website, or
using the Mensys Online Store http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/
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