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Re: [GTG] Re: [ITP] rzip 2.1 -- Compression program to use long distance redundencies in files
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:58:32 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [GTG] Re: [ITP] rzip 2.1 -- Compression program to use long distance redundencies in files
- References: <lk7p1rvi.fsf@blue.sea.net> <82fxxxxv1s.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> >>>>> 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.
Minor typo in the sdesc: it's "redundancies", not "redundencies".
Igor
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