-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2010-05-22 at 21:28 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I wonder if there are opensource compressors with similar features?
have a look at dar and kdar or dargui
dar is excellent for archiving and splitting into dvd/cd sized chunks. I use it for all my local archival purposes. And it is available for other operating systems.
Unfortunately, it does not use reliable compression, ie, no forward recovery data. You have to use it with parchive to get that. On the other hand, dar is not a compression program: it uses gzip or bzip, when told. I can not get better results than by using those programs directly. What I'm looking for is for a compression program, that has forward recovery and split archive capability. Notice that I'm compressing a single huge file: tools like "gzip" or "zip" (linux) can not split a single file across multiple volumes. However, the original zip for dos/win can. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkv4irwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W2ogCeIp6LZ5A0cpn9nf4cyh0fhXcp fkMAn36sPZNvRB2TbjQJqXad8su5HUdp =djGz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org