On Friday 29 October 2004 07:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Arik Baratz wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:24:52 +0200, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Is there any way to get at the size of the original (uncompressed) > >> file given the bzip2 compressed version ? I've thought about > >>bzcat2 <file> | wc, but with the size of the files I'm dealing with > >> it takes several minutes for this command to complete and I would > >> really like to be able to do it quicker then that. > > > > I think it's impossible for stream compressors > > It would have been possible if bzip2's implementation bothered to > keep that data in its output file (if it was a seekable destination, > like gzip or unix compress used to do as far as I remember). > > But from looking at bzip2 lib's sources it looks like they aren't > doing it. > > So my conclusion right now is "no".
Thanks. I'm assuming fixing the implementation to do that will break binary compatability with the "old" compressed format. -- Oded ::.. Note that the manuals are out of date! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
