[cad-linux] Re: Design methodology for an open geometric datamanagement standard
- From: Massimiliano Mirra <mmirra@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:20:42 +0200
Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@xxxxx> writes:
Just a side note:
>> (tar.gz is better for this job, but zip has wider availability)
Zip archive members can be accessed randomly without decompressing the
whole archive; to access a member in a tar.gz, the archive needs to be
decompressed and seeked at least up to the target member. So maybe
there is a point to zip archives for these applications beyond
availability.
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