On Jan 30, 2008 10:46 AM, Brian Mathis <brian.mathis at gmail.com> wrote: > > I once knew a guy who bought a really cheap PC with an AMD CPU in it. > Despite the fact that the power supply was underpowered, and > everything else on the machine was just as cheap as possible, he > blamed the AMD chip for all of the problems the PC had. To this day > he refuses to buy AMD CPUs, "because they don't work right" -- despite > the fact that millions of people use bzip2^H^H^H^H^H AMD chips every > day without any problem at all. > Heh heh - cute. I was going to respond in re the AMD issue when I re-read that last part. I had this problem with several files over a period of about six months. I suppose it could have been something else (AMD CPU, bad disk, power spikes, yada, yada), but: 1) The problem never showed up anywhere else, under my P4, same or different disks, same power conditions as other processes, yada, yada, yada. 2) I never saw this problem with using zip/unzip/pkzip, which I still use. 3) I also never saw enough of a significant advantage of bzip2 over zip, but none of my files were all that large, either. My impression was that the larger (and more binary) a file was, the better the results with bzip2. Like I said, YMMV. mhr