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To: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>,
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Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzi
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 24 Jan 2000 18:55:40 +0100
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Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> writes:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > On 24-Jan-00 David O'Brien wrote:
> > >  running Winloose, so I actually *CAN* run this in the background.  I
> > >  certainly was not idle while Bzip2 was compressing.
> > Its pretty annoying waiting for something to compress if you want to do
> > other things that depend on it being compressed..
> tail -f?  *vbg*

No, because bzip2 doesn't stream very well. It splits the input in
blocks of several hundred kB and compresses entire blocks in memory
before writing them out.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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