Quoting XRDLAB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > > I am facing some problem with regard to gzip. I dowmloaded the > icewm-0.9.33 files from debian archive. Netscape, unzipped the diff.gz > file while downloading. To get on with the compilation, I just gzipped > the diff file. But, the size in the dsc file and the actual size vary. > So I thought the problem might be the level of compression that gzip > is using and so set it to highest. Still I could not get the file size > that is on the archive. The exact figures are: > > icewm_0.9.33-1.diff.gz 6475 (actual) > icewm_0.9.33-1.diff.gz 6480 (got with gzip --best ice...) > > How do I achieve a higher compression? Or is the gzip version I am > using (from stock hamm) older?
No idea, but it's important not to unzip these files because the checksums don't work anymore. If you want to browse them, either make a copy before unzipping, or, better, use mc which will do this magically on the fly. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
