[tex-live] Re: [tug-board] Any news of DVDs ?

[Martin Schröder]

On 2006-01-26 17:25:19 +0000, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> been any useful information as to how to un-BZ2 it, but there
> was none, so I downloaded the straight ISO file from Aarhus.
> Is there any /real/ reason why ZIP compression (which is
> universally understood) cannot be used rather than the obscure
> "BZ2" compression method ?

Google exists: http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=BZ2
Wikipedia exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bz2

Best
    Martin

PS: When compressing the pdfTeX sources, zip is by far the worst
    format: 2848747 tar.bz2, 3555202 tar.gz, 3935103 zip
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