New archive file format (was: [omgps] collect feature requests)
Alexander Shulgin
alex.shulgin at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 08:42:21 CEST 2009
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 00:20, Laszlo
KREKACS<laszlo.krekacs.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I dont want to compress at all. The 118MB for me is perfect. I only
>> want to pack the directory into a file. But not compressing.
>> Im thinking about tar or ar.
>
> Tar completely fail at random access, simply it lacks the
> table of content, so accessing the last file in the archive
> requires reading the whole content before it.
I fail to see how is this true for normal tar files (vs. data read
from pipe). Can you elaborate please?
> Zip support accessing each files in the archive, although
> it compress the file by default.
Pardon my ignorance, but wouldn't zip -0 do the trick for your purpose? :)
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Regards,
Alex
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