Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files

[Adrian Irving-Beer]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:15:59PM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> It does depend on the size of the file versus the size of the
> compression window:

Cool, I didn't know that.  The gzip manpage does not mention 'window'
issues.  Is there a way to increase the gzip window, perhaps with -9?
Or a way for arch to request a larger window (to a reasonable extent)
based on the size of the data?

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