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David O'Brien writes:

>It removes the depandancy (well reduces it) on one more GPV'ed binary. :-)

Then how about implementing the algorithm gzip is using (some LZ77
afaik) in a "free" program?  A high-profile compressor like bzip2,
which invests a lot of cpu time and memory(!) for squeezing out the
last byte imho isn't really suitable for a general purpose, fast
compressor (and one which doesn't eat several megabytes for
decompression, this is certainly an issue on small machines, although,
I have to admit, to many users these days the concept of having memory
sizes of only 8 megabytes in some environments may seem totally alien
but think of embedded devices or some old machine as small router.)

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