From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Bzip2 1.0.2 Date: 31 May 2002 05:52:53 GMT Organization: Ericsson Erisoft AB, Sweden Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <200205231333 DOT g4NDX1U02705 AT delorie DOT com> <3CF6D98C DOT A7C7AA44 AT junk DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lws256.lu.erisoft.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Ian Chapman (ian_chapman AT junk DOT net) wrote: : 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? You need to configure your mail/post tool to break lines at about 70 columns. Or press Enter now and then. Winzip doesn't run on plain DOZE. There's no source available. bzip2 is just another compression format, which compresses somewhat better than gzip's. : 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. So how do you uncompress a bzip2 compressed file (if that's what you got)? : --------------BCA0A90DB84217046C07E45B : Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii : Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit : : : Hi, :
may be I'm missing some thing. Why with winzip Your tool is severly misconfigured. Stop that HTML rubbish in your posts. Thank you. Right, MartinS