James Turner wrote: > For some reason, I have never seen code to do this with the .tar.gz > format, thought in principle it should work; the issue is that ZIPs > have a table of contents that can be read without extracting all the > files, whereas for a .tar.gz I think you'd have to uncompresss the > whole contents and then start examining the tarball.
This is indeed a valid point - if we really aim at putting compressed archives into the aircraft directory. On the other hand: FG has to decompress the whole archive anyway in order to 'build' an aircraft from it .... ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
