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Re: gz files in man folders
On 8/5/05, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to James McLaughlin on 8/5/2005 5:41 AM:
> > While trying to find the file containing the man
> > information for g++ (which I succeeded in doing), I
> > noticed that in various subfolders of
> > c:\cygwin\share\man (in particular man1 and man3) a
> > lot of the .1 and .3 (and.something else for the other
> > subfolders) files were gzipped. This surprised me as
> > they were pretty small files.
>
> For files under 1k, zipping doesn't save any disk space (disk space is
> used a block at a time, whether you use the entire block or not), and
> wastes CPU cycles as it spawns the extra processes to unzip it. But for
> some man pages, the zipping is an improvement in filesize
I guess it depends on your definition of "pretty small files" since the
g++ manpage in question is 127k gzipped (nearly 500k uncompressed).
If you have most everything installed we're still probably talking about
less than 100M of disk savings, but it's better than nothing--especially
on old machines like my laptop with a 1.5G disk. :)
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