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To: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org>
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Subject: Re: Checking the integrity of system files 
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:35:54 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Is there something funamentally wrong with the pkg format that is
> already in use for the packages?

It requires as much temporary storage as the unpacked package's size
and it's slow besides (requiring also a rather sick hack to tar just
to extract the TOC without having to run all the way through the
archive).

				Jordan