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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: bzip2 - is it worth to take a look at?
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies)
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 12:00:13 +0200 (MET DST)
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> A new compression tool - bzip2 - is gaining popularity and I 
> want to put it to discussion whether it could be used to augment
> the installation floppy towards even higher functionality like
> containing more tools etc. etc.
> 
> bzip2 compresses about 20 % better than gzip.

decoder size compared to gzip ?

	cheers
	luigi


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