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I have an old bzip file that I need to unpack. However, I can only seem to find bunzip2, which does not read this bzip file.

I have not been able to find any program that handles bzip files. Is there really nothing modern that can read such a file?

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The Wikipedia article on bzip2 links to the an archived copy of the homepage for explaining the switch from bzip to bzip2. A subsequent section reads:

How can I decompress old .bz files (created by bzip-0.21) ?

Here's a the source code for a decompress-only version of bzip-0.21. Or you can download a binary for Linux-ELF.

The code compiled fine on my 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04.

muru
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