On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 08:37, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > 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.
Still gzip is more of a standard. Is there a comparable replacement for zlib, such as maybe a "bz2lib"? > > 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. Oh well - users can always pipe it through gzip manually if they don't have clever vi or less installations. > hawk Darren
