From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 13 05:14:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA13124 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 05:14:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from tsi.gte.com ([205.174.176.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA13106 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 05:14:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smorris@tsi.gte.com) Received: from iiohab.tsi.gte.com by tsi.gte.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA27260; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:18:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:16:46 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Morris To: Alex Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gzipped programs In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Alex wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Scott Morris wrote: > > > Steve, > > > > You can pretty much assume that if you gzip a file in the bin directories > > it will be a Bad Thing(tm). The level of badness will depend on the > > particular file you zip. You really don't gain much if anything by > > compressing binaries anyway. You can compress old logfiles and such but > > stay away from configs etc. Of course if you installed the source you can > > compress or remove it if you need the space. > > I am a little clueless here, but why is it a bad thing to do this? I just > compressed BitchX with what seems like a 50% ratio, and with the pseudo > device gzip, it seems to work fine. > > - alex > I stand corrected. I had never run across that particular device. Or I saw it and just skipped it as something I couldn't imagine why I would do that. I guess I spent too many years in VMS. I'll go look through LINt now and see what else I missed. :) ----- Scott Morris GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. Information Security smorris@tsi.gte.com