Mike Corbeil wrote:
>
> Does bzip2 take any longer than gzip?
>
Yes. TANSTAAFL ... bzip2 is based on arithmetic compression
which is more CPU-intensive but produces better compression
than gzip which is based on an enhanced LZW algorithm.
> What ever happened to cpio? This one seems to have been the least
> popular, but worked fine for me when I last used it. From what I
> recall, cpio was the alternative to tar on Unix platforms, and was
> thought to be sometimes better than tar.
cpio still exists, and is used in most Linux distributions, because
it's one of the components in the rpm package.
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Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse France
old Linux fan
