<<On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 19:46:47 -0800, "David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Am I the only one that uses UNIX as a multitasking OS?
> nice the bzip2 process by 20 and background it. Geez.
Perhaps you're the only one who compresses files just for the hell of
it. Most people normally compress files to meet an immediate need,
and actually care how long it takes since whatever they're doing is
blocked until the compression completes.
-GAWollman
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