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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Implementing kioslaves for archive formats
From:       Martijn Klingens <mklingens () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-07-25 18:16:04
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On Wednesday 25 July 2001 19:44, David Faure wrote:
> > Since I don't have all the experience you have, I decided to ask the
> > you. Do you think that it is a good idea to implement an ioslave for
> > an archive? I believe it is, but maybe you have a reason why it's not
> > such a good idea. The way I see it, a kioslave for a tar, for instance,
> > would allow us to use a tar as if it was a virtual file system or
> > something, we would be able to upload and download, list files, etc...
>
> Yes but you wouldn't be able to do that on a remote tar file.
> For such a case you need to chain the kioslaves, which... currently
> doesn't work with filesystems-like structures (only with compression
> filters) and is very inefficient (you can't really make sure the file gets
> downloaded only once).

But it would be cool to have, though, opening a tar from ftp. So I wonder if 
this can be added despite the problems...

Martijn

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