From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] compress, zcat, pack, compact Message-ID: <20010817185959.K6233@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <20010817165252.2261.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20010817165252.2261.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu>; from Scott Schwartz on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:52:51PM -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 19:00:00 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e1870ab0-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:52:51PM -0400, Scott Schwartz wrote: > > > Gzip/gunzip complains about the .Z files. > > Really? The unix version of gunzip is happy with them. Indeed, and will even extract the contents from a single file ZIP archive. And Bzip2 will do all that and beat GZIP at compression, sometimes quite significantly. Amusingly, WinZIP has my admiration, too. It really handles a phenomenal range of storage formats. I think it fails on BZIP2, which is perplexing. ++L