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From: Jeff Miller <jmiller@smart.net>
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Subject: Re: bzip2 -- A (much) better compression program than gzip
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>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

sb> I've tried this out against the 19.16-b90 tarball, and found it 
sb> produces a 20% smaller compressed tarball.

just for grins I installed and tried it in gzip-el.sh & 20.3b18

w/gzip i save 16.637 M

w/bzip2 i save 17.036 M 

so i tried my xemacs.tar.gz file

ls -la xemacs.tar.gz 
-rw-rw-r--   1 jmiller  jmiller  12434666 Jul 28 00:39 xemacs.tar.gz

w/bzip2

ls -la xemacs.tar.bz2 
-rw-rw-r--   1 jmiller  jmiller  10290912 Jul 28 00:39 xemacs.tar.bz2

bzip definitely seems to do much better with larger files.  

jeff

