On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 00:20, Laszlo KREKACS<laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I dont want to compress at all. The 118MB for me is perfect. I only >> want to pack the directory into a file. But not compressing. >> Im thinking about tar or ar. > > Tar completely fail at random access, simply it lacks the > table of content, so accessing the last file in the archive > requires reading the whole content before it.
I fail to see how is this true for normal tar files (vs. data read from pipe). Can you elaborate please? > Zip support accessing each files in the archive, although > it compress the file by default. Pardon my ignorance, but wouldn't zip -0 do the trick for your purpose? :) -- Regards, Alex _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
