On 8/20/05, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>     # dd if=/dev/hdb1 | gzip -c |  wc -c
> 
> Sometimes bzip2 is a better compressor.

I found out that rar now has support for reading from stdin.  Rar
typically offers better compression than other compressors.  But it's
not open source.

-todd


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