Alex Zepeda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > On 24-Jan-00 David O'Brien wrote:
> > >  running Winloose, so I actually *CAN* run this in the background.  I
> > >  certainly was not idle while Bzip2 was compressing.
> > Its pretty annoying waiting for something to compress if you want to do
> > other things that depend on it being compressed..
> tail -f?  *vbg*

No, because bzip2 doesn't stream very well. It splits the input in
blocks of several hundred kB and compresses entire blocks in memory
before writing them out.

DES
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