On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> > Ah yes. They're using the same compression algorithm as 7zip, but they're > in-line-filterable, and behave just like a normal "gzip" command etc. > > AKA, there is never any reason to use bzip2. Using lzma --fast is much > faster, and better compression than bzip2. It's superior in every way. I think that if you are sending files to another person, it is much more important that he/she have the decompression software than that the file be small. At least that is what I feel when I receive a file. It is part of "be conservative in what you send", etc. Daniel Feenberg [email protected] _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
