Re: PostgreSQL downloads compressed with bzip2 instead of

On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 03:12 , Daniel R. Anderson wrote:

> AND, if I
> remember correctly bunzip2 -- like when you gunzip a *.gz --
> removes the
> extension.[0] So you'd have to recompress the tar file /anyways/ --
> thus making it a negligible savings.

Not necessarily so.

Here are the aliases I've set up (I use Mac OS X) to make things
easier :

This will tar & compress a directory/file :

alias bztar "gnutar --use=bzip2 -cvf"

These will untar & decompress gzip or bzip2 files and leave no
detritus :

alias bzuntar "gnutar --use=bzip2 -xvf"

alias gzuntar "tar -zxvf"

Whether one uses broadband or whatever, it's nice to be able to
conserve bandwidth, whether that is to save yourself money or
simply reduce the load on servers. That would help other users
and reduce the costs for all those nice open source people.

Cheers,
Joel