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Date:      Tue, 07 Aug 2001 10:16:11 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        David Xu <davidx@viasoft.com.cn>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.bin/bzip2 Makefile 
Message-ID:  <29697.997172171@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:45:30 %2B0800." <200108070750.PAA04390@mail.viasoft.com.cn> 

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On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:45:30 +0800, David Xu wrote:

> I have a strange feeling, while bzip2 is in base system but not zip!
> is it the fact that bzip2 is more widely used than zip format?

They're two different kinds of program.  zip is an archiver, bzip2 is a
compressor.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

PS: Your mailer does the _weirdest_ things with addresses in the To and
    Cc headers.

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