On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Jonas Maebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You do have to decompress everything in the archive coming before it (but > nothing forces you, or TC, to store the decompressed but undesired data to > disk, obviously).
That would normally make sense and how I understand it with .tar.gz files for example, but when using TC to browse the RTL HTML archive (original 38MB of data) and view a single file, it's instantly open. Compare that time to extracting the whole archive which takes much longer or when viewing a browsing a .tar.gz file. I know you are never supposed to assume, but I assumed that because there is such a *huge* difference in speed when only viewing a single file, then 7-zip must support extracting a single file without unpacking what comes before it for solid archives (or it's just very very efficient). Anyway, I'll investigate this further so I don't have to make assumptions... ;-) Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
