From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 5 01:29:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA20638 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 01:29:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA20610 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 01:29:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA10636 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 11:32:07 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from kuku) Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 11:32:07 +0200 (MEST) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199804050932.LAA10636@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: bzip2 - is it worth to take a look at? Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A new compression tool - bzip2 - is gaining popularity and I want to put it to discussion whether it could be used to augment the installation floppy towards even higher functionality like containing more tools etc. etc. bzip2 compresses about 20 % better than gzip. Try it at: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/apps/ -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message