RE: Data Compression

["Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu>]

In fact, you can just continually append with new invocations of gzip -c.
This is great for hourly compression of web logs. The only impact is that
gunzip -l no longer produces reasonable numbers. 

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meier, Robert [mailto:Bob.Meier@fanucrobotics.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 2:59 PM
> To: linux-aviation@nl.linux.org
> Subject: RE: Data Compression
> 
> 
> unix-users,
> 
> >    When you use a compressor like gzip, you tell it:
> > 
> >   "Here is a file, or data area for you to compress.  
> Here's where it
> > starts, here's how long it is.  Put the compressed version 
> over there.
> Come
> > back when you're through."
> 
> 	This is the batch mode of gzip normally used.  I believe that
> gzip -c is a stream mode.  In the stream mode, AFAIK, you can
> provide data in segments without specifying data lengths.  Further, I
> believe, though did not test, that output starts before all input is
> provided.
> 
> Dr. Robert J. Meier             FANUC Robotics North America
> tel:+1.248.377.7469    mailto:robert.meier@fanucrobotics.com
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