From kde-core-devel Thu Jul 22 19:46:24 1999 From: Richard Moore Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 19:46:24 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Using tar.gz archives as koffice documents X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93267565714835 I noticed the plan to use .tar.gz format on the news page. I have a couple of comments: I like the idea of using some sort of archive file, but I don't think tar is necessarily the best to use. The problem is that tar files can only be read as a stream, but for a compound document I think access to the individual files is important. I would suggest that perhaps ZIP files (perhaps using a JAR compatible manifest file) would be a better alternative. Zip files have a directory at the end making access to individual files easier. The disadvantage is that as the files are individually compressed rather than compressed as a single stream they tend to be slightly larger. Rich. -- Richard Moore rich@ipso-facto.freeserve.co.uk http://www.robocast.com/ richard@robocast.com http://developer.kde.org/ rich@kde.org