Date: Fri, 24 Oct 97 01:07:38 -0700 From: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net> To: "Mike Smith" <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: .zip vs. .tar.gz [was: zipfs filesystem anyone ? ] Message-ID: <199710240807.BAA01837@mail.san.rr.com>
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On Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:26:35 +0930, Mike Smith wrote: >If tar was smart, it would use the external compression tool to >compress the data for each file as it read it, rather than compressing >the output stream. You would still lose, as the tar format does not >have a central directory. I've never understood why InfoZip didn't catch on more in the Unix world. It is a very useful tool, which does almost everything on the list of requests that you and others are asking for. :) If you want more info, http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ Doug *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 4,168 clients and still growing. :-) *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) *** Part of the DALnet IRC network ***
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