which one is more effective when compressing large files
compress or gzip..
can we use bzip2?
thanks
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:28 am
by ArndW
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.