On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:50:52AM +1030, Darren Freeman wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 07:44, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:26:59AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > Also, bz2 compression can handle losing bits out of the middle, unlike > > gzip. > Interesting. It's a shame that bz2 isn't really widespread in its use, > although it's probably installed on most systems. It's been part of the base install of FreeBSD for a year or so, and I assume similarly for the other *bsds. > VI can transparently un-gzip files. It transparently re-gzips them when > you're done! At least mine does =) > Less can also read gzips. I think these are installtion-dependent options--it depends upon how they were compiled. hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \
