In article <19990809183928.A343@epsilon> you wrote:
> I think we should also distribute bzip2 compressed archives.
> bzip2 is much more efficient than gzip (for example OpenSSL would fit
> on one floppy disk if compressed with bzip2).
Yes, sounds reasonable. But keep in mind that currently some problems were
detected where newer bzip2 variants were unable to uncompress tar.bz2 files
compressed with older variants. So if we also use bzip2, we should distribute
the particular used bzip2 distribution on our FTP side IMHO, too.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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