-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >> - tar has been around forever >> - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar >> becoming more common even on commercial Unices) > > Tar is easily available even on Windows. Good programs like 7-zip and many, > many others, can handle tar well. > > - gzip provides better compression than zip (bzip2 is even better but >> it takes lots of CPU) > > rzip, which is built on top of bzip2, manages to compress significantly > better than bzip2 (specially for large files), while being significantly > faster. > A drawback is that it cannot work as a filter (IIRC, it can't read from a > pipe, and the author says that the design of the algorithm makes it hard or > even impossible to make it able to read from a pipe). > It was done by Andrew Tridgell (which dispenses presentation). > 7zip compresses even more (more than zip, gzip, bzip2 or even rzip) but is > very slow.
I'll have to try it. > My choice is rzip. For big "stand-alone" files, it's great. > I really don't know why isn't rzip integrated with tar (like gzip and bzip2 > are) and why isn't it more widely used. Because tar uses pipes, which, as you pointed out, rzip can't use. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF/CeOS9HxQb37XmcRAj5/AJ4+D7j+V3YSNEYgXOsJEQZ9Rw5fDgCg091C x92z8p1SMdm96++NOvfT2KA= =HqUG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
