[H-GEN] Compressing ISO images (Was: Darwin ?)

[Bruce Campbell]

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On Sun, 26 May 2002, Robert Brockway wrote:

> Also worth noting that bzip2 defaults to -9 while gzip defaults to -6 (but
> Greg did have both explicitely set to -9 in his tests).

Note that bzip2's -number argument is subtly different from gzip's -number
argument.

A useful resource for comparision of compression methods is the Canterbury
Corpus at http://corpus.canterbury.ac.nz/index.html .

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Bruce.


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