From: las@r-node.hub.org (Laszlo Herczeg) Subject: Re: New feature for the filesystems. What do you think ? Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 23:27:33 GMT
I am currently using a "transparent" compression scheme - the tcx program
which was posted a few weeks ago in comp.sources.unix.
TCX compiled clean for Linux, except for a few #define changes in untcx.c .
For the time I have been using it, TCX has behaved fine and it saves about
50 % space on my /usr/bin. I can compress heavily used files such as gcc and
p2c (for me:) and it keeps track of the status of the files without a glitch.
Based on my testing experience, I would recommend tcx until such time as
someone comes up with an OS-based compression scheme.
Cheers!
Laszlo
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