discuss: Thread: New HOWTO: Compression

Linuxdoc Discuss Readers:

   My name is Travis Johnson. I am currently in 8th grade and have been 
working with Linux for over 2 years. This year for a science fair project, I 
am doing a project on compression. The testing will be done on uncompressed 
source code tarfiles with GNU gzip and bzip2. It will cover:

     - The amount of time the compression takes
     - The file size of the compressed file
     - The compression ratio
     - The (kilo)bytes per second

   I would also like to make a HOWTO containing the above, with the addition 
of a section about obtaining, compiling, and using bzip2 and GNU gzip. I 
would appreciate to be informed of any other topics I should cover.

   Travis Johnson
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Hello,

This is excellent. Just for comparison sake I would suggest adding old
fashion compress to the mix and maybe zip? Yes zip runs on Linux.

You may want to discuss the advantages to each. For example, Bzip2 is
great for large files, but is generally slower than gzip.

J

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Travis Johnson wrote:

>Linuxdoc Discuss Readers:
>
>   My name is Travis Johnson. I am currently in 8th grade and have been
>working with Linux for over 2 years. This year for a science fair project, I
>am doing a project on compression. The testing will be done on uncompressed
>source code tarfiles with GNU gzip and bzip2. It will cover:
>
>     - The amount of time the compression takes
>     - The file size of the compressed file
>     - The compression ratio
>     - The (kilo)bytes per second
>
>   I would also like to make a HOWTO containing the above, with the addition
>of a section about obtaining, compiling, and using bzip2 and GNU gzip. I
>would appreciate to be informed of any other topics I should cover.
>
>   Travis Johnson
>_________________________________________________________________
>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
>
>
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