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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