Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:41:25 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> To: bentley <bentley3@mediaone.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk compression? Message-ID: <39D24D65.BD778BDB@nasby.net> References: <200009262246.SAA13060@duval.se.mediaone.net> <39D1F426.6E606ED1@mitre.org>
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If you're looking to maximize your compression, you might want to check out bzip, as I've heard that it gets much better compression ratios than gzip -9 does, at least on text files. "Andresen,Jason R." wrote: > > bentley wrote: > > > > IS THERE a program in the ports collection that lets you compress the files > > you download a little to save space? > > Do you mean a compression utility? FreeBSD ships with gzip, which > compresses files just fine (gzip <filename>). Also, you can compress > executables and FreeBSD will automatically decompress them at runtime. <snip> -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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