At 10:12 08/27/2005 -0700, Todd Walton wrote: >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.
If you want some impressive compression check out 7-zip <http://www.7-zip.org>. In some cases they get compressed files half the size of a zipped file. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
