diff --git a/src/apps/bin/bzip2/Jamfile b/src/apps/bin/bzip2/Jamfile
index 4b4c99b042..c893e5ca75 100644
--- a/src/apps/bin/bzip2/Jamfile
+++ b/src/apps/bin/bzip2/Jamfile
@@ -14,10 +14,12 @@ BinCommand bzip2 :
 	decompress.c
 	bzlib.c
 	bzip2.c
+	: : bzip2.rdef
 ;
 
 BinCommand bzip2recover :
 	bzip2recover.c
+	: : bzip2.rdef
 ;
 
 {
diff --git a/src/apps/bin/bzip2/bzip2.rdef b/src/apps/bin/bzip2/bzip2.rdef
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5c82d11284
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/apps/bin/bzip2/bzip2.rdef
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+resource app_version
+{
+	major = 1,
+	middle = 0,
+	minor = 2,
+	variety = 5,
+	internal = 0,
+	short_info = "1.02", 
+    long_info  = "1.02 ©2002 Julian R Seward"
+};
+