From: pac <cej@cejchan.gli.cas.cz>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] compress, zcat, pack, compact
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:21:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cej-1010820092147.A01245@cejchan.gli.cas.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010817185959.K6233@cackle.proxima.alt.za>
>> 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.
The gunzip manpage says, that gunzip cannot treat other compression methods than gzip's deflate.
It really complains about some of .Z
>>
>> Indeed, and will even extract the contents from a single file ZIP
>> archive. And Bzip2 will do all that
I didn't know before. I'll give it a try...
>> and beat GZIP at compression,
>> sometimes quite significantly.
Yes, I know. It's my favourite compression format.
>>
>> Amusingly, WinZIP has my admiration, too. It really handles a
>> phenomenal range of storage formats. I think it fails on
>> BZIP2, which is perplexing.
I don't and won't use Windoze....
>>
>> ++L
>>
--
Peter A Cejchan
biologist
Acad. Sci., Prague, CZ
<cej at cejchan dot gli dot cas dot cz>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-20 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2001-08-17 14:29 ` pac
2001-08-17 16:52 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-08-17 17:00 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-20 7:21 ` pac [this message]
2001-08-20 7:45 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-20 13:15 Russ Cox
2001-08-20 15:08 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-20 15:12 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-20 15:38 ` Lucio De Re
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2001-08-17 14:19 rob pike
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