[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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