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Re: using gzip ?



> 
> 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				dpapp@amisk.cs.ualberta.ca
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