Camlbz2 provides ocaml bindings for libbz2 (aka bzip2), a popular compression library which typically compresses better (i.e., smaller resulting files) than gzip.

using camlbz2 you can read and write compressed "files", where files can be anything offering an in_channel/out_channel abstraction (files, sockets, ...).

also, with camlbz2 you can compress and decompress strings in memory using the bzip2 compression algorithm.

this package contains only the shared runtime stub libraries.