Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:35:45 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030627133348.03575190@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3EFBFB70.B6121D9E@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030625214311.00e5e240@localhost> <20030626110336.GW34365@iconoplex.co.uk>
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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. >> gzip - nasty, but re-implementable. Or we move to a non-GNU zip format. > >Compress, again. Can't bzip handle gzip archives? --Brett
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