---
name: rzip
version: 2.1
origin: archivers/rzip
comment: Compression program similar to gzip or bzip2
arch: freebsd:9:x86:64
www: http://rzip.samba.org/
maintainer: pav@FreeBSD.org
prefix: /usr/local
licenselogic: single
flatsize: 32235
desc: |
  rzip is a compression program, similar in functionality to gzip or bzip2, but
  able to take advantage from long distance redundancies in files, which can
  sometimes allow rzip to produce much better compression ratios than other
  programs.

  The principal advantage of rzip is that it has an effective history buffer of
  900 Mbyte. This means it can find matching pieces of the input file over huge
  distances compared to other commonly used compression programs. The gzip
  program by comparison uses a history buffer of 32 kbyte and bzip2 uses a
  history buffer of 900 kbyte. The second advantage of rzip over bzip2 is that it
  is usually faster. This may seem surprising at first given that rzip uses the
  bzip2 library as a backend (for handling the short-range compression), but it
  makes sense when you realise that rzip has usually reduced the data a fair bit
  before handing it to bzip2, so bzip2 has to do less work.

  WWW: http://rzip.samba.org/
categories: [archivers]
files:
  /usr/local/bin/rzip: e3f37e09885d79916bfcc9f3a447ac147b7dd179c6f1082b21072207e5f5ae30
  /usr/local/man/man1/rzip.1.gz: ed4476c100ba2e2f939750cdfcfbf043fdd7e65f597e84f7e94499d1fb9554ca
scripts: {}
