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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Show Percentage Compression in GZIP Post 302833159 by Corona688 on Tuesday 16th of July 2013 11:24:01 AM
Old 07-16-2013
There is of course some overhead but very little since, as you noted, it's smart enough to switch algorithms when faced with a file that compresses badly. It's much better than some older compressors which, worst case, could double the size of a file.

I have no idea where the 175% comes from, it makes no apparent sense either way you consider it.
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NAME
smart - The Smart Package Manager SYNOPSIS
smart command [options] [arguments] DESCRIPTION
The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem of managing software upgrading and installation. This tool works in all major distributions, and will bring notable advantages over native tools currently in use (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc). Action commands update install reinstall upgrade remove check fix download clean Setup commands channel priority mirror flag Query commands search query info stats Run "smart command --help" for more information. Options --version Show program's version number and exit --config-file=FILE Configuration file (default is <data-dir>/config) --data-dir=DIR Specifies the config file location - can take http, ftp urls and local file Data directory (default is /var/lib/smart/) --log-level=LEVEL Set the log level to level (debug, info, warning, error) --gui Use the default graphic interface --shell Use the default shell interface --interface=NAME Use the given interface --ignore-locks Don't respect locking -o OPT, --option=OPT Set the option given by a name=value pair Examples smart install --help smart install pkgname smart --gui smart --gui install pkgname smart --shell FILES
/etc/smart/ /var/lib/smart/ /usr/lib/smart/ /usr/lib/smart/plugins/ SEE ALSO
http://labix.org/smart AUTHOR
Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net> Christoph Thiel 2006 Jun 16 smart(8)
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