Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:38:19 +0400 From: "Artem Tepponen" <temik@egartech.com> To: "Jordan K Hubbard" <jkh@queasyweasel.com> Cc: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@ofug.org>, "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, "Wes Peters" <wes@softweyr.com>, "Dan Moschuk" <dan@freebsd.org>, <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <5235EF9BAE6B7F4CB3735789EEF73B296E6146@turtle.egar.egartech.com>
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> >> 1) Allows random access AND compression > > > > At the expense of having to seek to the end first? What > > about access to the metadata over a slow data stream, > > like you might have got with tar --fast-read? > > Having to seek to the end is, indeed, one of the major draw-backs of > zip. I have no idea why the originators, in their infinite > wisdom, put it there. They optimized for adding files to huge archive. Artem Tepponen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the messagehome | help
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