On Monday 12 February 2001 10:36, Branden wrote: > 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. Is that '.tar and .zip' as in '.tar and .zip' or '.tar or .zip'? Aren't most tars still unindexed, requiring a full file scan anyway? -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@capita.comThread Previous | Thread Next