Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Dec 1997 01:39:33 +0000 (GMT) | From | Peter Horton <> | Subject | RE: OFFTOPIC: Re: bzip2 for kernel dists? (fwd) |
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You could try http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/ instead ...
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On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, James Mastros wrote:
> Sorry to send two nearly identical mails to linux-kernel, but I noticed that > I mispelled the e-mail of the author of bzip2, and relised that I should > have mentioned the following URLs: > http://www.murona.demon.co.uk/ -- bzip2's offical web page, to which I am > having troube connecting to (don't worry, admin, I'm having trouble > connecting to many sites...) > OK, on second thought, worry. I'm getting squid errors (from the remote > end). Looks like demon's problem, but I let jstewart handle it <G>. > > > On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Adam McKee wrote: > [snip all the part vaugely related to the linux kernel] > > The succession of LZ77-based compression by BWT-based > > compression is inevitable as machines get faster. But it will take some > > time to replace a standard as strongly entrenched as gzip. gzip is an > > absolutely superb LZ77-based compressor - maybe even the best of its kind. > > > > How about integrating the BWT-based compression in bzip2 into gzip in > > order to speed the transition and make it easier? > > > > gzip -bwt? Just an idea. > Sounds good to me, but I would implement this in the reverse way -- have > bzip2 understand .bzip, .bzip2, .gz, and .Z archives (possibly just by > forking gzip), and have a -z and -Z option. Also, default to -z when > executed as g{un+""}zip, and -Z when executed as {de|""}compress. (bzip > only on decompress, due to copyright/tm problems). > > (Note: I'm adding a CC to the author of bzip2) > > -=- James Mastros > > -- > When the annals of distributed computing are written, and the name 'Bovine' > appears in there, I can say "Hey, I was a part of that, I checked .0012% of > the keyspace". > -=- Brian Wilson <wilsonb@mindspring.net> > Go to www.distributed.net before I come make you! > >
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