On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 15:16:33 -0700, Rick wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> Quoting Arnt Karlsen ([email protected]): > > > > > You forgot 'pack' :-) > > > > > > You forgot pigz lbzip2 pixz pxz, those are multicore, multithtread > > > programs. > > > > ...and rzip and lrzip... ;oD ..I'll only accept blame for that last line, I use rzip on my [fetch,proc]mail log files, about once a year. ;oD > Honestly, Adam's run-through was so close to being exhaustive and > definitive as to be IMO sort of breathtaking. And thus appreciated > by this correspondent. ...and by this too. Like I liked the humor in those 2 lines I got blamed for. ;o) Which we could have been a little clearer about. > He didn't cover the antique Compress utility that gave us the .Z > prefix, either, but c'mon. Computing history is littered with > obsolete compression and archiving formats. I remember during the > years when I was a BBS sysop / owner / operator in the 1980s and > early 1990s, the DOS-oriented computing world went through a > menagerie of such things: arc, pkzip, arj, and many others I'm trying > hard to forget. > > Adam's argument for xz is IMO very compelling except for us poor > bastards who choose to make online content including non-software > content easily accessible to users of unfortunate operating systems > (which would fall under Adam's 'compatibility' wording). ..I believe I have seen (about 20 years ago) a wintendo open a tarball with WinZip, using 2 double clicks, first on the gz compression, then on the gunzipped tarball. They can still do that? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
