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compressing dat files

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which one is more effective when compressing large files

compress or gzip..

can we use bzip2?


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Both are pretty effective in compressing files; assuming your priority is file size, not compression time. Also, I think that gzip might have 2Gb size limitations on some platforms (i.e. HP-UX) where compress doesn't.
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