HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo
docs
Matthias Buelow
mkb at mukappabeta.de
Wed May 7 11:51:49 PDT 2003
Narvi writes:
>Really - except for a very limited set of streaming applications with hard
>latency rules, going away from gzip to a BWT based compressors is a Very
>Good Thing (tm).
for things like manpages and texinfo-files, even compress(1) would be
more than sufficient, if it weren't for license issues (but then again,
compress is still included, so what.) And it surely is a lot faster,
especially than bzip2.
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Matthias Buelow
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