George Russell wrote:
> [...] I think that in fact the zip format would be better, because
> every zip file has a complete directory at the end, so you normally
> only have to read in one disk block for the directory, [...]
It's not that easy with ZIP files: Due to a trailing comment field
which is prefixed(!) by its length one can only guess the start of
the end directory header, see the unzip sources. The only non-guessing
way is to sequentially hop through the file entries.
Cheers,
Sven
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