<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi Chris, try rzip download from synaptic.<br>rzip uses a history buffer of up to<br>900MB, while gzip uses 32KB<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: chris wyllie <cgwyllie@googlemail.com><br>To: Tayside Linux User Group <dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Sent: Thursday, 22 November, 2007 10:20:01 PM<br>Subject: [dundee] Creating compressed archives?<br><br>Hiya, this is something I've never been able to fathom. I know it must be possible, but how's it done? All my attempts to create a compressed archive end with a reduction by about 0.8Mb instead of anything significant.
<br><br>What tools/formats are most practical?<br><br>Thanks,<br> chris<br>
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