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From: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2  support for distribution patches)
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On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 10:26:48AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> (I once tried to compress our FreeBSD ISO images with bzip2,
> just to compare the space savings with gzip.  I aborted the
> experiment after 6 hours (!).  gzip took about 30 minutes.
> Consequently, bzip2 was considered unusable and went into the
> trash can.)

Am I the only one that uses UNIX as a multitasking OS?
nice the bzip2 process by 20 and background it.  Geez.


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