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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: "Compound file" library?
From:       weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de
Date:       1998-11-03 20:44:12
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Hi,

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Steffen Hansen wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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 think this has been discussed before. Java uses uncompressed zip files
> (and calls them jars ;-). Zip is indexed, so fast retrieval is possible.
> Besides that, the format is standard, so one can easily manipulate it.

After looking at their code you should put "easily" in quotes :-)

bye
Torben

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