From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 6 15:18:39 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79FFE37B69C; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:18:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f16NICS87306; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:18:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:18:12 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) Message-ID: <20010206151812.B86851@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200102061647.f16Gl6P56895@misha.privatelabs.com> <13548.981500989@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <13548.981500989@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:09:49PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:09:49PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Does bzip offer any backwards compatability with gzip, e.g. if we > bundled bzip in /usr/bin instead of gzip, would a hardlink to bzip > under the name "gzip" still DTRT with .gz files? I believe NetBSD has done some work in this area (ie, a more combined libz). I guess I could go take a look at their work. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message