Tim Kientzle <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, if all you really want is the ability to append to an existing > compressed archive, just do it. > 1) gunzip already handles concatenated compressed files. If you append two > gzipped files, the output from gunzip will be the concatenation of the > uncompressed files. > 2) GNU tar already has the hack you need to read such files: > --ignore-zeros
And there is the problem: such an archive would violate the standard. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
