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To: mi@aldan.algebra.com
Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>,
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Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) 
In-Reply-To: Message from mi@aldan.algebra.com 
   of "Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:47:05 EST." <200102061647.f16Gl6P56895@misha.privatelabs.com> 
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:09:49 -0800
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From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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> Bzip2  has a  more  liberal  license and  is  a  better (more  efficient
> usually) compressor.  It is also  being actively maintained.  Some Linux
> distros come  with man-pages bzip2-ed  instead of gzip-ed too.  IMHO, we
> should use it.

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?

- Jordan


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