Re: [Hampshire] [hants] compression

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Author: The Holy ettlz
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To: isaacclose, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [hants] compression

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On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:41 +0000, Isaac Close wrote:
> hello all,
>
> I'm (trying) to find the 'best' compression software/algorithm about.
> Best as-in best compression ratio most, cpu time and memory footprint are not a problem.
>
> I'm already well aware of 7zip, bzip2, rzip and ofcourse gzip, but looking on google is not putting me beyond those.
>
> tar very much,

^^^
return -EBADPUN;

bzip2 compresses better than gzip, but in my experience LZMA (part
of .7z) is better than bzip2. RAR is also very good (same order as 7z)
but not Free Software.

James

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