In a message dated: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 13:10:35 PST "Karl J. Runge" said:
>Why don't you guys try bzip2(1). The b stands for "block compression", >and so can recover from bad blocks. bzip2recover evidently aids in >this. Also, bzip2 compression seems to be about 10-20% better than >gzip... (e.g. the linux .bz2 kernel src tarballs) I agree that bzip2 is great, however, isn't there some instance where gzip works and bzip2 doesn't? I seem to remember something about bzip2 doesn't work well with streaming I/O due to it's block-based design. I could be completely wrong here, but I know I remember a debate about gzip vs. bzip2 and where bzip2 wouldn't perform well under certain circumstances. Anyone have a clue what I'm probably mis-remembering here? ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
