OTOH, the libraries for ZIP, such as java.util.zip.ZipFile are intended for arbitrary selection of which file within the archive to decompress... you could alternately use java.util.zip.ZipInputStream to decompress files as they appear in the archive, hence (theoretically) allowing for streaming compression.
Hope this helps!
-Frank
At 05:31 PM 1/17/2005, you wrote:
Care to recommend libraries/API for generating GZIP archives?
My group's build/install group creates multi-GB archives that we poor coders hafta download, twiddle, and install. Unfortunately they currently generate only .zip, which means one must download the whole damn thing before one can start to decompress and use it: it can't be piped the way tar/gzip'ed archives can. One objection they have raised is that they don't know of code that will generate .gz: I'd like to overcome that objection.
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