Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:18:12 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) Message-ID: <20010206151812.B86851@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <13548.981500989@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:09:49PM -0800 References: <200102061647.f16Gl6P56895@misha.privatelabs.com> <13548.981500989@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:09:49PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> Does bzip offer any backwards compatability with gzip, e.g. if we
> bundled bzip in /usr/bin instead of gzip, would a hardlink to bzip
> under the name "gzip" still DTRT with .gz files?
I believe NetBSD has done some work in this area (ie, a more combined
libz). I guess I could go take a look at their work.
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