note flexvault <p><a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=933574">mbethke</a>,</p> <p>I think we agree! </p><p> What I referred to is that 'gzip' does great in compressing text, and the result is a binary file. Now that file can be compressed further by 'compress'. But I haven't done that since the RT or early RS\6000 days. I don't even know if 'compress' on AIX 6.1 or 7.1 exists( my in-house box with AIX 5.2 has it ), but I found it "funny" to see the ".qz.Z" and remembered when it was done. I pointed it out in case the file was being created differently then the OP thought.</p><p> I just fired up last week a Debian AMD box with 8-core and 4-2TB drives. </p><p> Why bother with compression! </p> <p>Regards...Ed</p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-733061"> <p><b>"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin</b></p> </div></div> 1017291 1017556