faq  flatforty  contribute  subscribe  configure  search  rdf  main  parent  thread	Re: xdelta newbie question by Val on Sunday 17/Oct/2004, @21:39 BTW, doaes someone have an idea why xdelta's are for .tar, not .tar.bz2? I think the latter would be much more convenient...	Related Links  ·   Articles on KDE Official News  ·   Also by Val  ·   Contact author Thread Threshold: 10 comments 20 comments 30 comments 40 comments 50 comments 60 comments 70 comments 80 comments 90 comments 100 comments 110 comments 120 comments 130 comments 140 comments 150 comments 160 comments 170 comments 180 comments 190 comments 200 comments 300 comments 400 comments 500 comments 1000 comments
	The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whomever posted them. ( Reply ) Re: xdelta newbie question by Anonymous on Sunday 17/Oct/2004, @23:28 The xdelta files created for the tar files are smaller. [ Reply To This | View ] Re: xdelta newbie question by Brian Harring on Saturday 12/Mar/2005, @01:23 Delta compression (differencing) sucks against compressed files- a single byte change in the new version can result in all bytes after N in the output stream differing. Differencers are ran against uncompressed data, then the patch is compressed (automatically with xdelta) to minimize the patch size.... [ Reply To This | View ] The Fine Print: The previous comments are owned by whomever posted them. ( Reply )

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