New version 1.1.13-1 of pbzip2
is available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES Last upstream release. DESCRIPTION PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 or newer HOMEPAGE https://launchpad.net/pbzip2 http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ Marco Atzeri If you have questions or comments, please send them to the cygwin mailing list at: cygwin (at) cygwin (dot) com .