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Re: Compressed man pages

From:	Ralph Corderoy
Subject:	Re: Compressed man pages
Date:	Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:32:26 +0100

Hi Sam,

> I started looking into changing to xz (or just.. not bz2, anyway)

If you're putting effort into researching another compressor then
consider lzip(1).  https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html

Its author compares it against xz in particular.
https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.

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