On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 15:16:33 -0700, Rick wrote in message
<20181020221633.GA17100@???>:

> Quoting Arnt Karlsen (arnt@???):
>

> > > > You forgot 'pack' :-)    

> > >
> > > You forgot pigz lbzip2 pixz pxz, those are multicore, multithtread
> > > programs.
> >
> > ...and rzip and lrzip... ;oD

..I'll only accept blame for that last line, I use rzip on my
[fetch,proc]mail log files, about once a year. ;oD

> Honestly, Adam's run-through was so close to being exhaustive and
> definitive as to be IMO sort of breathtaking. And thus appreciated
> by this correspondent.

...and by this too. Like I liked the humor in those 2 lines I got
blamed for. ;o) Which we could have been a little clearer about.

> He didn't cover the antique Compress utility that gave us the .Z
> prefix, either, but c'mon. Computing history is littered with
> obsolete compression and archiving formats. I remember during the
> years when I was a BBS sysop / owner / operator in the 1980s and
> early 1990s, the DOS-oriented computing world went through a
> menagerie of such things: arc, pkzip, arj, and many others I'm trying
> hard to forget.
>
> Adam's argument for xz is IMO very compelling except for us poor
> bastards who choose to make online content including non-software
> content easily accessible to users of unfortunate operating systems
> (which would fall under Adam's 'compatibility' wording).

..I believe I have seen (about 20 years ago) a wintendo open a tarball
with WinZip, using 2 double clicks, first on the gz compression, then
on the gunzipped tarball. They can still do that?

--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.