>> I'm still pretty sure you'll need the whole file in case of bzip2. But
> 
> Now I'm even more sure, I tested ;). I drained 10M of random data to a
> file, compressed it, had 11M file :), took first 10M of it and tried to
> uncompress it.


> bunzip2: Deleting output file testi2, if it exists.

That's a limitation of the bunzip2 executable, not a fundamental 
limitation of the algorithm itself.

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