Jan> Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Jan> Thanks.. For the same reason. How big would a bzip2 compressed tarball Jan> be. Jan> Most that size is probably for files that have been moved to the Jan> packages, isn't it? Apart from that the sizes are actually quite reasonable. (martinb＠camelot-soft) /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs $ BLOCKSIZE=1024 du -s xemacs; tar cf - xemacs | bzip2 | wc -c | perl -e 'print int(<STDIN>/1024),"\n";' 113854 xemacs 23611 So we get a compression ratio of about 5. However, running bzip is very slow - the above command took about 15 minutes of cpu time on cvs.xemacs.org. Given that cvs.xemacs.org is also used by some people for real work, even doing this experiment was slightly naughty. Martin