On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Lutz Mueller wrote:
> Many thanks for bringing the JDK 1.2 to Linux, but ...
A bzip2 RPM came with my RedHat 5.2 box. Did you try to install that?
> help, I cannot decompress the JDK 1.2 on my RH 5.2 based distribution.
> The the bzip2 from http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/ does a core dump
> on my system.
I do not speak for the Blackdown developers, but bzip2 does a lot better
job at compressing when compared to gzip. The bzip2 download is much
smaller which makes it a lot easier to download on a slow connection.
I would think that this makes up for the requirement that you type
"rpm -i bzip2*.rpm".
later
mo
> Why not distribute in a format everybody can handle, like gzip? I think
> a Java Jdk distribution is the wrong vehicle to promote a new
> compression program.
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