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Re: using gzip ?
- To: (Rupert G. Goldie)
- Subject: Re: using gzip ?
- From: Papp Denis Richard <>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 23:17:03 -0700
- Cc: crossfire (at) ifi.uio.no
- In-Reply-To: <> from "Rupert G. Goldie" at Feb 17, 94 05:20:30 pm
>
> What do people think about using gzip rather than compress for compressing
> the files on the ftp site ? I have found gzip -9 gets _much_ better compression
> (eg crossfire-0.90.1.arch.tar.Z = 657787 bytes
> crossfire-0.90.1.arch.tar.gz = 397620 bytes)
I've always wondered but never checked, isnt compress mostly for
text files, and doesnt really compress binary files as well as could
be...?
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Denis Papp
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