Date: 24 Jan 2000 18:55:40 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzi Message-ID: <xzp3drn4an7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Alex Zepeda's message of "Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:25:13 -0800 (PST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001232225010.254-100000@localhost>
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Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> writes: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 24-Jan-00 David O'Brien wrote: > > > running Winloose, so I actually *CAN* run this in the background. I > > > certainly was not idle while Bzip2 was compressing. > > Its pretty annoying waiting for something to compress if you want to do > > other things that depend on it being compressed.. > tail -f? *vbg* No, because bzip2 doesn't stream very well. It splits the input in blocks of several hundred kB and compresses entire blocks in memory before writing them out. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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