The Compress::Bzip2 module provides a Perl interface to the Bzip2 compression library (see "AUTHOR" for details about where to get Bzip2). A relevant subset of the functionality provided by Bzip2 is available in Compress::Bzip2.
All string parameters can either be a scalar or a scalar reference.
The module can be split into two general areas of functionality, namely in-memory compression/decompression and read/write access to bzip2 files. Each of these areas will be discussed separately below.
