Re: use of tar.gz to compress the roms

[Simon Hosie]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Raul Fernandes wrote:
> How do you compress the roms?? All in one package??

Well, yes, otherwise there's no advantage (statistical information isn't
shared between files).  The problem is the way I did it.  Every time xmame
wanted a file, it would reissue the command to extract that particular file,
and gzip would have to decompress the whole file up to the end of the file
it wanted so that tar could get at it.

It would have been a bit more bother than I could muster to do it correctly.

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