From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3wSO-0005Sj-RX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:53:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7DDqNld031896; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:52:23 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7DDmOpa019950 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:48:25 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so610531nzc for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:48:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GuApdMWV0yfbEFlTV/ELAH3vBxY6hhMvUFsxA5dObbeezmcb6Vyq2OhFk+eLeeGahHsXa/sk6o2ptedHVhGg4TbKbWbt8+LNNqo/FqAPqQ5DgFXIB22iq8g4W8Ec2W7pF9xqD49Yv0LdEyfX+R9xA00xhxwKmtxFFuf/zNFMsFw= Received: by 10.36.23.6 with SMTP id 6mr3133553nzw; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:48:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.104? ([24.30.171.44]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 15sm1034777nzp.2005.08.13.06.48.33; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:48:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42FDFBF6.8070600@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:56:06 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050804) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared References: <200508130058.19730.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <1123936459.19531.7.camel@localhost> <93080e5e05081305441506c0af@mail.gmail.com> <1123937734.19531.9.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1123937734.19531.9.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b0780d65-45e3-4862-a4f4-9542bc82591b X-Archives-Hash: 1ef3b37217a3cbcccd6de78a5299f6f2 fire-eyes wrote: > > Sounds like P7 doesn't have the capability to remember user names group > names etc, definately a "i'd try it" killer for me. > If it's anything like gzip or bzip2 then the compression algorithm does not need to support anything like usernames or groups. That stuff is handled by a separate program such as tar. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list