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From: u9039899@cs.uow.edu.au (Darrin Jon Smart)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Compressing more then one file in one compression-run ?
Message-ID: <1991May28.234220.20976@cs.uow.edu.au>
Date: 28 May 91 23:42:20 GMT
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churchh@ut-emx.uucp (Henry Churchyard) writes:

>an archive separately in isolation), then what would happen when you
>deleted a file in the middle of an archive?  You would basically have
>to uncompress the whole archive, delete the uncompressed file, and
>then recompress everything else from scratch.  Not very efficient :-(

No, but it'd be great for distributing finished software, or any application
that requires the whole archive contents at once.

 - Darrin