[dundee] Creating compressed archives?

[chris wyllie]

Thanks, I'll give it a go :)

On 22/11/2007, David Thornton Snr <davidthorntonsnr at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris, try rzip download from synaptic.
> rzip uses a history buffer of up to
> 900MB, while gzip uses 32KB
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: chris wyllie <cgwyllie at googlemail.com>
> To: Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, 22 November, 2007 10:20:01 PM
> Subject: [dundee] Creating compressed archives?
>
> 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.
>
> What tools/formats are most practical?
>
> Thanks,
>   chris
>
>
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