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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Compress in Unix Post 41636 by Sasuke on Friday 10th of October 2003 12:32:30 AM
Old 10-10-2003
Compress in Unix

I tried Compress ; gzip and bzip . And they don't always compress files to small . Can someone tell me if there is any compress tool better than those ?
thanks
 

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