Re: Auto-install (was autoloaded...)

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:36:53PM -0300, Branden wrote:
> 
> John Porter wrote:
> > Branden wrote:
> > >
> > > For example, with tgz it would be complex to deal
> > > with running without extracting,
> >
> > What?  tar -z not good enough for you?
> >
> 
> The problem is that we cannot access individual files inside the archive
> without decompressing the whole archive, what is possible with .tar (not

I do not see a huge problem in decompressing the whole archive if needed.

> .gz) and .zip. Then we can assign a perl filehandle to access a file from
> inside the archive and decompress it on-the-fly.
> 
> - Branden

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