Simon Hosie
Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:27:53 -0800
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Lawrence Gold wrote: > I'm definitely in favor of supporting .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 formats for > roms. I've toyed with the idea of implementing it myself, but hadn't > gotten around to doing it yet. I did it cheaply using popen, but the seek times were terrible and it just wasn't worth the saved space. If it were to be done properly you would need to be able to get gzip to save state at the beginning of each file in the archive so you could use that information to seek (which I expect you should be able to do, but I'm too lazy to look). Either that or you would have to be careful how you ordered the files in the archive, or temporarily decompress everything into a directory. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]