Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:11:43 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" Message-ID: <20030629191013.F24605-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030627133348.03575190@localhost>
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Brett Glass wrote: > At 02:08 AM 6/27/2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > > >> bzip2 - could be reimplemented > > > >Or ignored. The Unisys patent which caused it to be written has > >expired (Welcome home, compress, we missed you!). > > bzip is actually better, because of the way it reorders files. > It does block sort - or rather apply Burrows-Hweeler transform (BWT) > >> gzip - nasty, but re-implementable. Or we move to a non-GNU zip format. > > > >Compress, again. > > Can't bzip handle gzip archives? > no. Though you could in principle unify the two into one executable with some savings. > --Brett >
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