[TAG] compressed issues of LG

[Ramon van Alteren]

Minh Nguyen wrote:
> So far, issues of LG have been compressed using tar and gzip. Is there
> any intention to use tar with bzip2 for future issues? Since most of
> the files in each issue are text files, bzip2 is more efficient (in
> terms of the size of the compressed file) than gzip. Here is a
> comparison of bzip2 and gzip using the current issue; i.e. November
> 2007 (#144):
>
> 1028042 lg-144.tar.bz2
> 1045337 lg-144.tar.gz
>
>   
That is a 1% size decrease.

Best regards,

Ramon