From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] compress, zcat, pack, compact To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010817185959.K6233@cackle.proxima.alt.za> From: pac Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:21:47 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e2ec3c72-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. 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