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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:32:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2  support for distribution patches)
Message-ID:  <200001242232.RAA00485@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000123194647.A5472@hub.freebsd.org>
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<<On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 19:46:47 -0800, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> Am I the only one that uses UNIX as a multitasking OS?
> nice the bzip2 process by 20 and background it.  Geez.

Perhaps you're the only one who compresses files just for the hell of
it.  Most people normally compress files to meet an immediate need,
and actually care how long it takes since whatever they're doing is
blocked until the compression completes.

-GAWollman

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