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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice file format
From:       Steffen Hansen <stefh () mip ! sdu ! dk>
Date:       1999-07-10 0:03:54
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On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Dirk A. Mueller wrote:

> * Replying to a message in KDE.DEVELOPING.
> 
> weis@stud.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
> 
>  > However, I studied the tar file format and I understand it
>  > now. I have code which can write tar files and compress
>  > them a la gzip. Reading code is almost finished.
> 
> why needs a single file be tar'ed ?
> 
> gzip should be enough, shouldn't it?

I dont think it's a single file. KOffice file format is XML which doesn't
allow binary data intermingled with tags. Therefore images and such must
be kept in separate files.

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