Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: >> Jim Meyering wrote: >>> >>> I'll push this in the next day or so, so any improvements people >>> can suggest in the mean time would be most welcome. >> >> >> Thanks for doing all that.
Wow, thanks! That made me do some digging for my old blog posts: <h2>Friday October 27 2000</h2> <p>Sent <a href="gzip.rsync.patch">rsyncable gzip patch</a> to the Debian gzip maintainer: he hasn't applied it yet AFAICT. Turned out to be relatively trivial (I originally assumed that the size of the window for calculating when to reset the Huffman tables would be much larger than the internal 32k window; this is false, and a value of ~16k is fine). Next step is to propose its use for .debs, then the world will be mine. Bwaahahaha! Cheers! Rusty.
