Message-ID: <3CF6D98C.A7C7AA44@junk.net> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 22:01:49 -0400 From: Ian Chapman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Bzip2 1.0.2 References: <200205231333 DOT g4NDX1U02705 AT delorie DOT com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------BCA0A90DB84217046C07E45B" Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com --------------BCA0A90DB84217046C07E45B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, may be I'm missing some thing. Why with winzip so readily available would anyone other than Linux people need gzip? and why do we have bzip? The latest winzip I seem to remember seeing tar and gzip whizzing past as I installed it. I think it can even uncompress a unix compressed file. I do not want to be critical just curious as to how all these gnu ports fit into the big picture. Regards Ian. Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote: > This is a port of Bzip2 1.0.2 to MSDOS/DJGPP. > ============================================= > > bzip2 is a compressor/decompressor program with > generally considerably better compression rate than > that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based > compressors. > The command-line options are deliberately very similar > to those of GNU gzip, but they are not identical. > > The port consists of the usual three packages that can be downloaded > from simtel.net and mirrors as (timestamp: 2002-05-21): > > Bzip2 1.0.2 binary, info and man format documentation: > http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/bz2-102b.zip&name=bz2-102b.zip > > Bzip2 1.0.2 dvi, html and ps format documentation: > http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/bz2-102d.zip&name=bz2-102d.zip > > Bzip2 1.0.2 source: > http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/bz2-102s.zip&name=bz2-102s.zip > > For information about bzip2 see: > http://sourceware.redhat.com/bzip2/ > > Install the archive(s) like any other DJGPP package described > in the DJGPP FAQ, which means, copy them to the root directory > of your DJGPP installation tree, let's say to c:/djgpp, and > unzip there the archive preserving the directory structure. > After that PLEASE READ the file: > djgpp/readme > which will be located then in the directory contrib/bzip2-1.0-2/ > which will describe more details. > > Regards > Guerrero, Juan Manuel --------------BCA0A90DB84217046C07E45B Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi,
    may be I'm missing some thing.  Why with winzip so readily available would anyone other than Linux people need gzip? and why do we have bzip?

    The latest winzip I seem to remember seeing tar and gzip whizzing past as I installed it.  I think it can even uncompress a unix compressed file.  I do not want to be critical just curious as to how all these gnu ports fit into the big picture.

        Regards Ian.

Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:

This is a port of Bzip2 1.0.2 to MSDOS/DJGPP.
=============================================

  bzip2 is a compressor/decompressor program with
generally considerably better compression rate than
that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based
compressors.
The command-line options are deliberately very similar
to those of GNU gzip, but they are not identical.

The port consists of the usual three packages that can be downloaded
from simtel.net and mirrors as (timestamp: 2002-05-21):

  Bzip2 1.0.2 binary, info and man format documentation:
  http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/bz2-102b.zip&name=bz2-102b.zip

  Bzip2 1.0.2 dvi, html and ps format documentation:
  http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/bz2-102d.zip&name=bz2-102d.zip

  Bzip2 1.0.2 source:
  http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/bz2-102s.zip&name=bz2-102s.zip

For information about bzip2 see:
  http://sourceware.redhat.com/bzip2/

Install the archive(s) like any other DJGPP package described
in the DJGPP FAQ, which means, copy them to the root directory
of your DJGPP installation tree, let's say to c:/djgpp, and
unzip there the archive preserving the directory structure.
After that PLEASE READ the file:
   djgpp/readme
which will be located then in the directory contrib/bzip2-1.0-2/
which will describe more details.

Regards
Guerrero, Juan Manuel <st001906 AT hrz1 DOT hrz DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de>

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