rzip

Latest release

Added -L compression level option

minor portability fixes

fixed a bug that could cause some files to not be able to be uncompressed

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You can get a copy of the large-corpus files from http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/large-corpus/.

In the following I show the compression ratios of the large-corpus for rzip 2.0, gzip 1.3.5 and bzip2 1.0.2 on my Debian Linux laptop. In all cases the programs were run with their maximum compresion options.

File Name rzip gzip bzip2 large-corpus/archive 6.03 3.64 4.97 large-corpus/emacs 5.08 3.66 4.62 large-corpus/linux 5.54 4.24 5.23 large-corpus/samba 9.55 3.50 4.78 large-corpus/spamfile 29.95 8.43 14.23

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