On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:25, Roger Burton West wrote; > >I thought that Java's JAR files were just Java-tARballs. > Mostly they're Zip-files, actually..
Which makes sense, because .ZIP is a file format with an index at the end designed for random access, whereas .tar files need to be scanned to work out where each file starts and ends. And plain `ar' doesn't do compression. -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything ? VINCENT van GOGH
