Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 16:36:24 +0000 From: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 - worthy successor to gzip? Message-ID: <E0zmKgy-0000EK-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Marc van Woerkom's message of "Sat, 5 Dec 1998 00:31:23 %2B0100 (CET)" References: <199812042331.AAA02402@oranje.my.domain>
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Marc van Woerkom <marc@netcologne.de> writes: > 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 I was under the impression that there were several patent issues with it. Not sure what though. It might be worth reading the docs closely. -- ``Bernstein versus Venema Celebrity Deathmatch: I see a great need.'' -- MR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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