[GTG] Re: [ITP] rzip 2.1 -- Compression program to use long distance redundencies in files

Dr. Volker Zell Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com
Thu Dec 20 15:09:00 GMT 2007


>>>>> Jari Aalto writes:

    > Included in Debain stable

    >   http://packages.debian.org/rzip

    > Jari

    > sdesc: "Compression program to use long distance redundencies in files"
    > ldesc: "A compression program able to take advantage of long distance
    > redundancies in files, allowing greater compression ratios. rzip uses
    > a history buffer of up to 900MB, while gzip uses 32KB and bzip2 uses
    > 900KB. rzip cannot read from the standard input or write to the
    > standard output."
    > category: Utils
    > requires: cygwin libbz2_1

Builds fine from source, packaging and setup.hint look good.

GTG
  Volker



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