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From:
Branden
Date:
February 12, 2001 06:36
Subject:
Re: Auto-install (was autoloaded...)
Message ID:
OE5fVwcdZ06YO4OPXok00005f9a@hotmail.com

John Porter wrote:
> Branden wrote:
> >
> > For example, with tgz it would be complex to deal
> > with running without extracting,
>
> What?  tar -z not good enough for you?
>

The problem is that we cannot access individual files inside the archive
without decompressing the whole archive, what is possible with .tar (not
.gz) and .zip. Then we can assign a perl filehandle to access a file from
inside the archive and decompress it on-the-fly.

- Branden
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