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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: "Compound file" library?
From:       David Faure <David.Faure () insa-lyon ! fr>
Date:       1998-11-03 17:01:42
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> I was thinking of a resource-library system that can store files in a
> space- and retrieval-efficient way. An application would be to store a
> logical set of toolbar pics etc in a single file.
Would other applications be able to access one of those pixmaps even without
knowing that they are stored in the compound file ?

This is for two reasons :
* Usual pixmaps for toolbars are already used by lots of apps, and
putting them into compound files shouldn't imply changing those apps.
* Furthermore, even if only using this for new apps, we don't want to put the
same icon in several compound files, do we ?   ... just a question, in fact.

> Does anyone know of a free library that can achieve this easily? I thought
> of using ar but the idea of invoking a new process for every access didn't
> seem palatable.
I vote for the 'zip' suggestion previously made on the list.
Is gzip like zip ? (can it be non-compressed ?)

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|  David FAURE                                                       |
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