From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5889 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2008 22:04:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 5882 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Mar 2008 22:04:36 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:03:59 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JY790-0000es-UD for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:03:54 +0000 Received: from oh-74-5-47-95.dhcp.embarqhsd.net ([74.5.47.95]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:03:54 +0000 Received: from shinji+gmane by oh-74-5-47-95.dhcp.embarqhsd.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:03:54 +0000 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com From: Robert Pendell Subject: Re: Compressing hippos really fast Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:04:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20080304164429.GA1124@calimero.vinschen.de> <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B6570929ABE6@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov> <20080305100319.GY18407@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <20080305100319.GY18407@calimero.vinschen.de> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080307-0, 03/07/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List X-SW-Source: 2008-q1/txt/msg00120.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | On Mar 4 16:23, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: |> Corinna Vinschen wrote: |>> does anybody know about a compression tool which is above all |>> capable of compressing really fast? |> I know that this is very "un-Linuxy", but if you don't really |> need tar, you might consider zip. | | Urgh. I'm not sure that's really an option. I never tried to use | zip on a terabyte of data... | | | Corinna | I don't think that would work. I think the linux version is based on Info-Zip and that one was limited to 2GB archive size. - -- Robert Pendell shinji@elite-systems.org Thawte Web of Trust Notary CAcert Assurer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH0w1bs1pR2j1qW+sRAuNcAJ41P5hGXU+ruPuK0lQbue36We5gHgCfaIqK PA277TzK78wmnB7llQMwQoA= =rlR8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----