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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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