Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> wrote:
Interesting; I don't recall the last time I had to build my own bzip2. I'm pretty sure I didn't do anything special to get it on RedHat recently.
It was included in the RedHat 6.2 distribution, possibly in 6.1 and 6.0 as well, though I can't check that. It hasn't been an "exotic" package in many years, although it's not necessarily installed by default in a "base" install. I see no reason not to use .bz2 as the default format. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <python@discworld.dyndns.org> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------