[2002-12-01] Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
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>"Robin.Hu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Bzip2 is widely spreaded with GNU software. It is available to all *nix
>> platforms those are available to me, include linux, *bsd, solaris, etc...
>>
>> IMHO, using tar.bz2 instead of tar.gz is a good idea.
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>Why would not use rar or ace instead of zip then? It already almost as much
>spread as zip is. And twice as small.
Because none of those; bz2, rar, or ace, will let you do this...
tar zxvf boost-1.29.0.tar.gz
...to extract the contents!
>P.S. If we have enough space could we simply publish several additional
>formats?
Good idea -- but more work for Beman ;-)
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