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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    RE: koTar
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-11-04 14:45:12
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On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, David Faure wrote:

> > The thumbnails and/or original images are saved as PNG and it would be
> > nice if they could be accesible without katalog as well. Basically the
> > same considerations as with koffice.
> Yes but what koStore allows is reading and writing with stream operators.
> That's mainly what it does on top of ktar.
> If you can always read or write entire files inside the tar file at once
> (which seems to be the case), just use ktar.

That would mean I have to write the files first to disk and then put
them in the tar-file. That becomes messy with tmp-directories and such.

With the stream operators I can skip that and dump the stuff directly
into tar-file.

Cheers,
Waldo

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