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bug#31065: Version 2??
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Mark Adler |
Subject: |
bug#31065: Version 2?? |
Date: |
Wed, 4 Apr 2018 16:01:00 -0700 |
Jean-loup has not worked on gzip for many years, but I will leave it to the
gzip maintainers here to answer to their future intentions.
However pigz has that ability now with the --independent option, where the
block size defaults to 128K, and can be changed with the --blocksize option.
See http://zlib.net/pigz/
> On Apr 4, 2018, at 2:10 PM, - - <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi, some time ago Jean-loup, said on [1]http://www.gzip.org/recover.txt
> that
> "As you can see, all this is not a trivial task, so you should attempt
> it only if your data is very valuable. gzip 2.0 will have a new
> blocksize option, allowing to recover easily all undamaged blocks after
> the damaged portion."
> I'm using gzip 1.9 from the PCLinuxOS.
> Can you please let me know:
> 1 Is it still the plan to get this into 2.0?
> 2 If you are, when do you think 2.0 will be out??
> Thanks loads
> Martin
>
> References
>
> 1. http://www.gzip.org/recover.txt
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