Re: coreutils-6.9.90 released

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 12/2/2007 3:24 AM:
>>
>> If you haven't heard about LZMA yet, see <http://tukaani.org/lzma/>.
>> Since the lzma-compressed tarball is 2GB smaller than the .bz2 one,
>
> Pretty impressive, since the overall tarball is less than 1GB in size!
> Oh, you meant 2MB.  :)

Ha! Got me.  :-)

Actually, I *was* really impressed to see the size decrease
from 5.6MB to 3.6MB, when going from bzip2 to lzma compression
on the coreutils tarball.