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		charcircuit 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: bzip3 Because it's not version 3.0 of bzip, but an entirely different program.
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mitxela 6 days ago [–]

bzip2 isn't compatible with bzip, and the current maintainer of bzip2 made neither bzip nor bzip2.

charcircuit 6 days ago | [–]

Julian Seward created both bzip and bzip2.

mitxela 6 days ago | | [–]

Kamila Szewczyk created bzip3

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