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Subject: Re: Announcement: Junkbase for SCID/bzip?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 16:57:22 02/01/01

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On February 01, 2001 at 19:50:52, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 01, 2001 at 19:00:13, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On February 01, 2001 at 18:21:36, Pete Galati wrote:
>>[snip]
>>
>>>bzip?  This is different that gzip and pkzip?
>>Yes.
>>
>>>Can this really compress smaller
>>>than gzip on maximum?
>>Yes.
>
>Here is the size after gzip -9 for all the files:
>02/01/2001  04:26p         138,196,267 junkbase.sg.gz
>02/01/2001  04:27p          54,938,748 junkbase.si.gz
>02/01/2001  04:27p           4,519,463 junkbase.sn.gz
>               3 File(s)    197,654,478 bytes
>
>And here is the bzip file size:
>01/30/2001  03:31p         131,824,621 junkbase.sg.bz
>01/30/2001  03:36p          50,660,956 junkbase.si.bz
>01/30/2001  03:31p           3,734,485 junkbase.sn.bz
>               3 File(s)    186,220,062 bytes
>
>And Here is the bzip2 file size:
>02/01/2001  02:39p         131,274,889 junkbase.sg.bz2
>02/01/2001  02:41p          50,939,361 junkbase.si.bz2
>02/01/2001  02:42p           3,736,896 junkbase.sn.bz2
>               4 File(s)    186,114,986 bytes
>Hmm... only saved 100K from bzip to bzip2, not one meg like I thought before.
>But it is 10 megs smaller than gzip, which might save someone a few nickels if
>they have to download over the phone line (and they are nutso enough to download
>behemoth files anyway).

That's a big savings in download time.  I was just over at cygnus trying to
download bzip but there was too many people on the server, so I'll have to get
back to it a bit later.  Thought I had bookmarked the thing but I didn't, but it
only took a few seconds to find it the first time, here it is
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html

Pete



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