On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
> On 9 August 2010 04:54, David Tweed wrote:
>> The one thing that leaps out at me is that there's no checksumming of
>> either the individual files or the whole the archive file performed,
>> so if you give it a damaged archive you won't
Hey,
On 8 August 2010 16:02, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> there was a bug in the encoder, it could corrupt your data
It seemed to work during testing, according to cmp, but thanks for the warning.
On 9 August 2010 03:33, Anders Andersson wrote:
> After reading the source it seems a little less gener
* David Tweed [2010-08-09 04:54:25 +0100]:
> The one thing that leaps out at me is that there's no checksumming of
to some extent this can be worked around
find dir -type f | xargs sha1sum >dir.sum
find dir -type f | xargs wrap c dir.sum >dirwithsum.a
or even
sha1sum dir.a >dir.a.sum
but yes, d
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
> I've written a tiny archiver, which I've called "wrap" for lack of a
> better name. It is 120 lines of C, and yields far smaller archives
> than tar while overcoming the various crippling limitations of ar. It
> does, however, only store f
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Connor Lane Smith [2010-08-06 15:10:29 +0100]:
>
>> I've written a tiny archiver, which I've called "wrap" for lack of a
>
> looks nice (nicer than tar, cpio or gnu ar)
>
>> I'm not quite sure of the use case for this, but I don't know, som
* Connor Lane Smith [2010-08-06 15:10:29 +0100]:
> I've written a tiny archiver, which I've called "wrap" for lack of a
looks nice (nicer than tar, cpio or gnu ar)
> I'm not quite sure of the use case for this, but I don't know, someone
i'm not sure either
but it'd be unixy to do
find dir | x
* Connor Lane Smith [2010-08-06 15:10:29 +0100]:
> Interestingly during testing the best compression results came from
> our very own sflate.
there was a bug in the encoder, it could corrupt your data
(i noticed it after rewriting a few things, but forgot to backport the fix to
the repo on suck
Hey all,
I've written a tiny archiver, which I've called "wrap" for lack of a
better name. It is 120 lines of C, and yields far smaller archives
than tar while overcoming the various crippling limitations of ar. It
does, however, only store files - subdirectories are implicit.
Interestingly during
