On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 00:25:22 CST John Goerzen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hmm, just an observation here. (Not necessarily directed at you, Mike.) > Are *all* packages that are compressed with gzip compressed with gzip -9? > Including all .orig.tar.gz files, .diff.gz, etc.? If not, this may be a > way to save some space for now.
BTW, in my experience, gzipping with -9 produces generally slightly larger compressed files than with the standard -6. There is a warning about this in the manpage I think (ie higher compression level will not always result in smaller compressed files). Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
