From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 5 11:02:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01751 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 11:02:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from myrddin.demon.co.uk (myrddin.demon.co.uk [158.152.54.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01737 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 11:02:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk) Received: from localhost (myrddin.demon.co.uk) [127.0.0.1] by myrddin.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zmKgy-0000EK-00; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 16:36:24 +0000 To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 - worthy successor to gzip? References: <199812042331.AAA02402@oranje.my.domain> From: Dom Mitchell In-Reply-To: Marc van Woerkom's message of "Sat, 5 Dec 1998 00:31:23 +0100 (CET)" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 16:36:24 +0000 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc van Woerkom 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