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Poster:	xtifr	Date:	July 20, 2005 07:19:06pm
Forum:	etree	Subject:	Re: Zip Files - Change in Policy

If you download a whole-show zip, and find one file is bad, you can simply download that file again. You certainly don't have to download the whole-show zip again!

I wonder if it would be possible to offer on-the-fly tar archives? The advantage of tar over zip is that you can literally create the files on the wire; no local storage needed at all. Tar is designed for writing to tapes, so it does everything sequentially. A tiny bit of perl or php glue to fill in the mime type and filename, and then spit the raw output from tar down the socket. Only noticable cost would be the process slot.