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Subject: Re: bz2?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:08:01 06/21/05

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On June 21, 2005 at 15:47:03, Dan Andersson wrote:

> You are right that using different comression schemes outperform any one
>scheme. But a full RAR isn't openly available in source form AFAIK. And using
>trial and error to find an optimal compression scheme isn't an especially speedy
>endeavor.
> So using a compression scheme that is on average superior to any one of the
>different RAR schemes is to me a no brainer.
> All that said, I do use the compression scheme I know works best on a
>particular data set. Like ratDVD for DVD. But then again media compresion
>doesn't have to be lossless.

I picked bz2 because many decompressors can handle it, both on Win32 and on
Unix.



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