Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression

From: Alistair John Strachan
Date: Mon May 22 2006 - 15:06:35 EST


On Monday 22 May 2006 19:58, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
[snip]
> Personally, I would like to suggest adding LZMA capability to gzip.
> The gzip format already has support for multiple compression formats.

Any idea why this wasn't done for bzip2?

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Cheers,
Alistair.

Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
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