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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml


From: Robert Collins
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:31:52 +1100

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 04:41, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Thinking about the implications of this I wonder why no one has built
> a general purpose archiver like with a structure like that.  I should
> give roughly the same compression ration as tar | gzip while still
> giving you the random access properties of zip. 

Because zip doesn't have random access properties.

Rob

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