"D. Stimits" schrieb:
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> Simon Matter wrote:
> >
> > There is no reason to use gzip instead of bzip2. On wondows you can use
> > PowerArchiver which will handle bzipped files as well.
>
> I'm not familiar with PowerArchiver. Where is it available? Is it free?
> Does it work with win 2k? (perhaps not as relevant, but some might be
> interested, is there some sort of similar program to work with bzip2 on
> a Mac?)
Until version 7.0, it was free. Now from 7.0 ongoing it's shareware. You
can still use lastest free version which is 6.11. You can compare it
with
winzip but I think it's better! It understands more file formats than
winzip. See http://www.powerarchiver.com/ for more info.
Simon
>
> D. Stimits, stimits@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> >
> > "D. Stimits" schrieb:
> > >
> > > Being that the ISO images are rather large, it might be nice to have a
> > > duplicate of each current ISO available that is the gzip version. gzip
> > > is suggested instead of bzip2 because gzip can be decompressed with
> > > standard tools on most any machine, including with winzip on windows
> > > (unfortunately, I'm one of those people that do not have access to a
> > > burner on a linux machine). I'd strongly recommend using "gzip -9" since
> > > maximum compression is important. With 300 MB files, it'll probably take
> > > some time for compression to complete, but imagine how much it'll pay
> > > off against a slow Internet download. I'm hoping to set a slow computer
> > > downloading tonight from a windows machine, so I suspect compression
> > > could cut down the time by many hours.
> > >
> > > D. Stimits, stimits@xxxxxxxxxx
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