On Wed, January 30, 2008 1:36 pm, MHR wrote: <snip> > As long as the majority of the files are not plain text - I have had > really bad results using bzip2 on text files - specifically, massive > file corruption. I have had to go back to pre-bzipped archives to > rebuild these files - not a fun task. Why do you think that the corruption you experienced had something to do with bzip2? I have been using it on a regular basis for the last several years to compress files of all sizes (ranging from very small to several gigabytes) and have yet to experience any corruption whatsoever.