From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 14 11:44:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA26448 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:44:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from eh.est.is (root@eh.est.is [194.144.208.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA26334 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:43:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from totii@est.is) Received: from didda.est.is (ppp-42.est.is [194.144.208.142]) by eh.est.is (8.8.5/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA15268; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 19:42:17 GMT (envelope-from totii@est.is) Message-ID: <346CA999.41C67EA6@est.is> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 19:42:17 +0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DEor=F0ur?= Ivarsson X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex CC: Scott Morris , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gzipped programs References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA26441 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Alex wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Scott Morris wrote: > > > Steve, > > > > You can pretty much assume that if you gzip a file in the bin directories > > it will be a Bad Thing(tm). The level of badness will depend on the > > particular file you zip. You really don't gain much if anything by > > compressing binaries anyway. You can compress old logfiles and such but > > stay away from configs etc. Of course if you installed the source you can > > compress or remove it if you need the space. > > I am a little clueless here, but why is it a bad thing to do this? I just > compressed BitchX with what seems like a 50% ratio, and with the pseudo > device gzip, it seems to work fine. > > - alex You can gzip all binaries exept gzip and gunzip, It will slow down the system but you gain diskspace, the install diskette is containing gzip executeables. I did run system with most binaries gzipped because of diskspace problems and it worked fine for me! -- Þórður Ívarsson Thordur Ivarsson Rafeindavirki Electronic technician Norðurgötu 30 Nordurgotu 30 Box 309 Box 309 602 Akureyri 602 Akureyri Ísland Iceland --------------------------------------------- FreeBSD has good features, Some others are full of unwanted features! ---------------------------------------------