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Date:      Mon, 03 Jul 2000 19:03:29 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
Cc:        small@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bzip2 vrs gzip saves me 28k on my kernel size 
Message-ID:  <200007040203.TAA00596@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:19:02 BST." <395C6606.30675C5C@cs.strath.ac.uk> 

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> I'd hope we can put a bzip2's decompressor into the boot loader
> and take out the gunzip code at the same time, making a nice
> space saving.

You are welcome to add bzip code to libz, and options to select the 
algorithm(s) that get built into libstand's zipfs, but gunzip support 
will never be "taken out" per se.



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