I agree with you for the most part, but you should be aware this works the
other way in certain situations. I recently compressed a text file full of
numbers with both bzip2 and gzip, and the bzip2 file was ~350MB and the
gzip file was ~120MB. I surprised me, too, but in some cases gzip works
much better.
Ben Pharr
At 09:43 PM 12/6/01 +0100, you wrote:
Hi there!
I have just found out that bzip2 is _really_ _great_ for large files.
I have tar'ed a whole debian-installation (1.2 gigs).
This tar, compressed with gzip, has a size of ~390MB.
The same tar, compressed with bzip2 has a size of 110MB!!!
So for every body out there: If you have a large file to compress
(and enogh time resp. CPU-power) then check out bzip2.
It is much slower than gzip, but (at leas for sufficient large files)
much better.
So long
Andreas Maresch
