I have known situations where the compressed output of pbzip2 was not readable by some .NET library a customer was using (I'm afraid I can't remember which one)

I have known situations where the compressed output of pbzip2 was not readable by some .NET library a customer was using (I'm afraid I can't remember which one). Fortunately an alternative multithreaded bzip2 implementation, http://lbzip2.org/ http://lbzip2.org/, did not suffer from this problem so just in case...