From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 4 15:31:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06377 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:31:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06366 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:30:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@netcologne.de) Received: from oranje.my.domain (dial8-249.netcologne.de [195.14.235.249]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA12966 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 00:30:21 +0100 (MET) X-Ncc-Regid: de.netcologne Received: (from marc@localhost) by oranje.my.domain (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA02402; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 00:31:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 00:31:23 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199812042331.AAA02402@oranje.my.domain> From: Marc van Woerkom To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bzip2 - worthy successor to gzip? Reply-to: van.woerkom@netcologne.de Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today, while fetching egcs, I noticed that those folks use bzip2 for compressing their snapshots: -rw-r--r-- 1 220 1002 8917442 Dec 2 19:33 egcs-1.1.1.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 220 1002 11604853 Dec 2 19:27 egcs-1.1.1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 220 1002 6222128 Dec 2 19:34 egcs-core-1.1.1.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 220 1002 8177883 Dec 2 19:16 egcs-core-1.1.1.tar.gz These files are only about 70% of their gzip counterparts - quite impressive. Julian Seward (jseward@acm.org), the author of this program claims extensive tests on his web page http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk Comments? Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message