From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 24 01:09:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA01753 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 01:09:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from mail.san.rr.com (san.rr.com [204.210.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA01747 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 01:09:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from studded@san.rr.com) Received: (from studded@localhost) by mail.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA01837; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 01:07:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710240807.BAA01837@mail.san.rr.com> From: "Studded" To: "Mike Smith" Cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Fri, 24 Oct 97 01:07:38 -0700 Reply-To: "Studded" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.95a For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: .zip vs. .tar.gz [was: zipfs filesystem anyone ? ] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ***