Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs

From: Matthias Buelow <mkb_at_mukappabeta.de> Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 20:51:53 +0200 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:06 UTC

Narvi writes:

>Really - except for a very limited set of streaming applications with hard
>latency rules, going away from gzip to a BWT based compressors is a Very
>Good Thing (tm).

for things like manpages and texinfo-files, even compress(1) would be
more than sufficient, if it weren't for license issues (but then again,
compress is still included, so what.)  And it surely is a lot faster,
especially than bzip2.

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