On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I though you would just need to reed the TOC of the tar file.  Then
> you wouldn't need to search the whole index file to find out whether A
> is still referenced somewhere.  But then I don't know much about the
> internals of a tar archive.

Indeed. tar archives do not have a TOC... That's why you can simply
cat some tar files together to make another valid tar file.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/

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