BZ2

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BZ2 (bzip2) is a single-file compression format, which is slightly slower but slightly more efficient than ZIP's standard Wikipedia icon Deflate compression.

It is optionally used by Source Source 1 FastDL servers to reduce network bandwidth usage, by sending the compressed file, which is then decompressed by the client.

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