On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:09:03PM -0400, shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote: > > Look in the archives for the opinion on bz2. On less than midrange > pentiums bzip2 is quite slow. 100k is not much of a diff, even over > my modem. > All those 100k's can add up quite quickly when you pay for your 'net by data. Personally, I don't mind the unpacking to take a bit longer, but I _do_ mind when things are bigger than they could be, it costs me mula. daniel