> It is nor a shell extension, just using a zip library to extract only > one file from the list.
Practically, I do not see any advantage of doing that. OK. We can extract only filename.lyx to $TEMP_DIR to open it, but to open it, we 'need' an embedded layout file. Then graphic loaders 'need' a few figures. Presumably, the bib file can stay bundled until we compile a .lyx file. In terms of programming, we need to know what files are available in the bundle and implement some sort of 'on-demand-extraction'. Even then, I do not see a big advantage of zip. base64 blocks can be extracted on-demand. We can locate such blocks and remember their locations and extract them on-demand. The only difference is that zip format places a directory in the front so the directory can be read quickly. If this on-demand-extraction is desired, we can put a manifest section at the beginning of a .lyx file as well. Anyway, let us just forget about these for now. Cheers, Bo
