On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:19:44PM +0200, Robb Shecter wrote:
>
> Peter Kovacs wrote:
>
> > jdk1.2pre-v1.tar.bz2 24457274
> > jdk1.2pre-v1.tar.gz 26062044
> >
> > Means a 6.1% better compression rate. Is it really that much improvement? If it
>was at least 15%...
> >
>
> Well, that looks like 1.6 MB per download. So, multiplied by the 500,000 downloads
>it'll get :),
> that's a lot of traffic that can be saved, esp. for a non-commercial provider.
>
> If bzip2 is "better", then we should use it for -everything-. It doesn't matter if
>it hurts a bit in
> the short run. As long as there's a new version coming of (say) tar that knows
>about it, and it makes
> sense, then it should be done.
Try "tar Ixf filename.tar.bz2" (your tar should be a recet version)
[(GNU tar) 1.12 does the job here.]
HTH,
Thomas
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