bzopen Opens a bzip2 compressed file &reftitle.description; resourcefalsebzopen stringresourcefile stringmode bzopen opens a bzip2 (.bz2) file for reading or writing. &reftitle.parameters; file The name of the file to open, or an existing stream resource. mode The modes 'r' (read), and 'w' (write) are supported. Everything else will cause bzopen to return &false;. &reftitle.returnvalues; If the open fails, bzopen returns &false;, otherwise it returns a pointer to the newly opened file. &reftitle.examples; ]]> &reftitle.seealso; bzclose