[tex-live] Re: [tug-board] Any news of DVDs ?

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Fri Jan 27 09:53:20 CET 2006


Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

>>>>>>"Peter" == Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> writes:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>
>  > Me included. I don't have anything personal against bzip2 except
>  > that it's unheard-of, unusual, and non-standard. Granted, it's on
>  > my FC4 machines, but TeX CD/DVD images are the only things that I
>  > ever use it for, so I have to RTFM every year to remember what to
>  > type. Goddess help the poor individual user.
>
>Why do people only regard things Microsoft provides as a standard?
>
>bzip2 is a standard for many years now.  It�s a pity that (some)
>Windows users are not aware of it.
>  
>
it may have to do with the speed; compressing big files using bzip is so 
much slower that one will stick to zip

also, it has never been integrated in an archiver (like zip -bz or so)

>Maybe bandwidth comes out of your ears, but this is certainly not the
>case for most people, especially in developing countries.
>  
>
also, in most cases, incoming is fast, but outgoing slow, so for posting  files it makes sense as well 

Hans 
 

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