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Date:      Sat, 5 Jul 1997 12:10:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>
To:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   compressing mailinglist archives
Message-ID:  <199707051010.MAA00800@panke.panke.de>

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I made a test between gzip and bzip for compressing mailinglist
archives. Bzip is 20% better than gzip. E.g. if you have 500MB
gzip'd mails, bzip would only need 400MB.

uncompressed 
	22246042 Bytes
gzip 
	 5325479 Bytes
bzip 
	 4152802 Bytes


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Wolfram Schneider    <wosch@apfel.de>    http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/



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