Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 20:51:53 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs Message-ID: <20030507185153.GA14729@moghedien.mukappabeta.net> In-Reply-To: <20030507214512.C40030-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> References: <20030502071926.GC3258@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030507214512.C40030-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Narvi writes: >Really - except for a very limited set of streaming applications with hard >latency rules, going away from gzip to a BWT based compressors is a Very >Good Thing (tm). for things like manpages and texinfo-files, even compress(1) would be more than sufficient, if it weren't for license issues (but then again, compress is still included, so what.) And it surely is a lot faster, especially than bzip2. -- Matthias Buelow home: mkb/at/mukappabeta.de uni: mkb/at/informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
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