Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. How to use bzip2

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
MEMORY MANAGEMENT
RECOVERING DATA FROM DAMAGED FILES
PERFORMANCE NOTES
CAVEATS
AUTHOR

3. Programming with libbzip2

3.1 Top-level structure

3.1.1 Low-level summary
3.1.2 High-level summary
3.1.3 Utility functions summary

3.2 Error handling
3.3 Low-level interface

3.3.1 BZ2_bzCompressInit
3.3.2 BZ2_bzCompress
3.3.3 BZ2_bzCompressEnd
3.3.4 BZ2_bzDecompressInit
3.3.5 BZ2_bzDecompress
3.3.6 BZ2_bzDecompressEnd

3.4 High-level interface

3.4.1 BZ2_bzReadOpen
3.4.2 BZ2_bzRead
3.4.3 BZ2_bzReadGetUnused
3.4.4 BZ2_bzReadClose
3.4.5 BZ2_bzWriteOpen
3.4.6 BZ2_bzWrite
3.4.7 BZ2_bzWriteClose
3.4.8 Handling embedded compressed data streams
3.4.9 Standard file-reading/writing code

3.5 Utility functions

3.5.1 BZ2_bzBuffToBuffCompress
3.5.2 BZ2_bzBuffToBuffDecompress

3.6 zlib compatibility functions
3.7 Using the library in a stdio-free environment

3.7.1 Getting rid of stdio
3.7.2 Critical error handling

3.8 Making a Windows DLL

4. Miscellanea

4.1 Limitations of the compressed file format
4.2 Portability issues
4.3 Reporting bugs
4.4 Did you get the right package?
4.5 Testing
4.6 Further reading