HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:15 PM +0200 2003/05/07, Matthias Buelow wrote:

>>I definately don't agree on texinfo files - these aren't all that small.
>>For example, the sizes of gcc.info.gz vs gcc.info.bz2 are:
>>
>>	306122 May  7 22:40 gcc.info.bz2
>>	400320 May  7 22:41 gcc.info.gz
>
>  Hmm, one might consider 100K insignificant on today's disk sizes :)

	Someone else on this discussion was talking about embedded 
systems with limited RAM and disk space.  For those kinds of 
applications, the disk space saved by bzip2 could be significant.

	However, my belief is that on embedded systems you don't have man 
(or doc or info) pages at all, and therefore the issue of the 
compression algorithm is pretty moot.


	There are some of us trying to run FreeBSD on some pretty 
old/low-powered hardware, such as the Compaq Armada 4131T that I'm 
using for 4.6.2-REL (133 MHz Pentium, 48MB RAM, 10GB HD) and on which 
I hope to soon be doing some testing for -CURRENT.

	However, on this system I'm short of RAM and disk space isn't 
that much of an issue.  Of course, I've already upgraded the hard 
drive, as the old one was just 1GB, and there I would really be 
desperately short.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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