Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: object archives (Re: IEEE 1003.2)
Message-ID: <689@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 18:40:30 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >About saving space:  isn't it the case that object archives do save
 >space?  Less internal fragmentation, and all that?   Maybe that is
 >only true under the old filesystem.

It's true under any file system with a block size greater than 1 byte,
which certainly includes the 4.2BSD file system....

 >Hmmm,  you might have to stat lots of files looking for the right
 >entry point.  I guess we would need a directory oriented version of
 >something like ranlib, in that case.

Open and read, not (just) stat.