MHR wrote
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
May I suggest using bzip2? Even better compression, though at the
cost of
needing more resources to compress and decompress. But maybe worth
it if
disk space or traffic is an issue.
I would be wary of bzip2 - I have had on and off success with it, with
most of the problems coming from bzipping text files. IIRC, bzip2 is
optimized for binary files, so that might be connected. Also, this
might be related to my use of bzip2 under Window$/DO$, so YMMV.
I have not had this problem with gzip, so unless the gain is major and
the reliability is 100%, I'd stick with gzip.
My experience is totally different. Bzip2 gets me much higher
compression ratios on text files that gzip and it is rock solid. But
yeah, that is on Linux and OS X, I don't know about bzip2 on Windows.
Nils Breunese.
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