Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com To: Ilan Rabinovitch Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Does gzip support multiple processors under windows 2000? References: From: Andrew Markebo Date: 22 Mar 2001 23:58:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii / Ilan Rabinovitch wrote: | Im trying to compress 1 large file. Im work with machines that have 4 procs | and I figured if I could get gzip to take advantage of smp it might compress | these files faster. | | Ilan Split the file into four parts and run them through 1 gzip each.. :-) Hack a program that reads from 4 places in that file and pipes the contents to four gzips.. Or do a program that can gzip from a certain position in a file to an end.. *hmm* The possibilities are endless :-) /Andy -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple