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From: "Artem Tepponen" <temik@egartech.com>
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> >> 1) Allows random access AND compression
> >
> > At the expense of having to seek to the end first?  What=20
> > about access to the metadata over a slow data stream,
> > like you might have got with tar --fast-read?
>=20
> Having to seek to the end is, indeed, one of the major draw-backs of=20
> zip.  I have no idea why the originators, in their infinite=20
> wisdom, put it there.

They optimized for adding files to huge archive.

Artem Tepponen

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