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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dump and compression
Date: 2 Apr 1997 19:57:10 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable J Wunsch
wrote on 26 Mar (in article <5hcbde$c8n@uriah.heep.sax.de>):
=What's wrong with implementing the compression feature into dump and
=restore? As i've showed, it's even possible to do it in a backwards-
=compatible way.
I'd voice a request for backward compatability to be optional.
Compressing all the files together allows for much higher compression
rate.
I'm not sure, gzip is the way to go here, BTW. Are there other GNU/BSD
compression methods?
-mi
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