This is a discussion on Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" - FreeBSD ; On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Brett Glass wrote: > At 02:08 AM 6/27/2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > > >> bzip2 - could be reimplemented > > > >Or ignored. The Unisys patent which caused it to be written has > ...
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 02:08 AM 6/27/2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> >> bzip2 - could be reimplemented
> >
> >Or ignored. The Unisys patent which caused it to be written has
> >expired (Welcome home, compress, we missed you!).
>
> bzip is actually better, because of the way it reorders files.
>
It does block sort - or rather apply Burrows-Hweeler transform (BWT)
> >> gzip - nasty, but re-implementable. Or we move to a non-GNU zip format.
> >
> >Compress, again.
>
> Can't bzip handle gzip archives?
>
no. Though you could in principle unify the two into one executable with
some savings.
> --Brett
>
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