On Jul 12, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> In bzip2 format, the stream is a sequence of blocks, and, at least as
> I understand it, each block can be decompressed independently, so
> seeking to a particular offset in the decompressed version of a
> bzip2'ed stream involves seeking to the beginning of the block
> containing the data at that offset, decompressing the block, and then
> moving to the right offset within the decompressed data. The default,
> and maximum, block size is 900K.
On the other hand
http://bzip.org/1.0.5/bzip2-manual-1.0.5.html
says
Further ahead, it would be nice to be able to do random access into
files. This will require some careful design of compressed file formats.
so perhaps I don't understand it correctly.
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