On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:19:44 +0100, Reinhold Birkenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> True; however, it's my understanding that compressing individual files >> also means that in the case of damage to the archive it is possible to >> recover the files after the damaged file. This cannot be guaranteed when >> the archive is compressed as a single stream. >With gzip, you can forget the entire rest of the stream; with bzip2, >there is a good chance that nothing more than one block (100-900k) is lost. I have actually written the version of that script with bzip2 but it was so horribly slow that I chose the zip version. -- It's a man's life in a Python Programming Association. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
