Nuri Jawad wrote:
Hi,
just wanted to remark that I never liked that bzip was replaced by bzip2
(were there license issues?) since bzip's compression was/is often
stronger:
39843104 Mar 28 09:33 linux-2.6.15.7.tar.bz2
39423739 Mar 28 09:33 linux-2.6.15.7.tar.bz
Not a big difference in this case but still a step back. I for once am
keeping my bzip binary.. does anyone know where the source can still be
found?
I know I have a copy backed up, but I'm rather disorganized at the
moment, having moved two out-of-town offices into this one, after
spending 12 years on a ten week contract... but I doubt you want it,
it's slow as hell and violates all manner of patents. Mind you, I think
the patents are held by IBM, so they might be negotiable, but I think
the original is dead. Used either fractal or arithmetic compression IIRC.
--
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and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during
wildcard (glob) expansion.
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