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+bunzip2 for GNO
+===============
+
+This is a port of the decompression portion of bzip2 to the GNO
+environment on the Apple IIgs.  See README.GNO for more information
+specific to the GNO port.  These sources might be adaptable to run
+under other IIgs shells too, but I haven't done that.
+
+Binary downloads are on [the releases page](https://github.com/sheumann/bunzip2/releases).
+
+Note that this is based on an old version of bzip2 with known 
+security vulnerabilities, so don't use it on files from potentially
+malicious sources.