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Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 05:58 PM 2/8/2001 +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >\zip's better in that it allows easy random access to a compressed file, > >[without having to compress everything else first] but worse for the > >same reason because you don't get as good a compression ratio by > >compressing each file separately. > > I've seen it go both ways with compression, but I'm not sure that a few > percent either way's a big deal. Packaging is more important than > compression for this purpose anyway, I think. > Yes. Packaging is what's important. I actually expect to not have to install the `par' and have perl6's magic filehandles decompress a file from the package `on-the-fly'. I think zip is the way to go! Is there any platform/license or any other restricting issues we should care about zip? Is it ported to all platforms Perl currently runs on? Is there a Perl module for handling zips? - BrandenThread Previous | Thread Next