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From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo
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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.

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Matthias Buelow
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