Date: 02/19/01
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At 15:05 19.2. 2001, Derick Rethans wrote the following:
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>On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Cynic wrote:
>
>> I would welcome the win32 distributions packed with bzip2
>> as well. This algorithm is superior to anything else I know
>> (well, at least in compression ratio), and is available to
>> win32 users as well. Not only as a commandline tool, but as
>> a plugin for the very popular wincmd32 too. Anything bzipped
>> is about half the size of that thing zipped.
>
>It's only that the most users se WinZip, which does not support it.
>
>Derick Rethans
"If you want to save some bandwidth, here's the distro in a
bzipped archive. bzip2 plugin for Windows Commander is
available for free at www.ghisler.com."
I believe that a bzip verion of the large win32 distro would
be somewhere about 2.3MB. That's quite nice, compared to
3.6MB of the zip file.
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Cynic:
A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who taught
that virtue constitutes happiness and that self control is
the essential part of virtue.
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