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tar.gz requires decompressing everything (in-memory at least) in sequence because the compression is separate from the archive format. It's a tar archive compre
by smileybarry 4y ago
tar.gz requires decompressing everything (in-memory at least) in sequence because the compression is separate from the archive format. It's a tar archive compressed entirely in a gzip container, whereas (e.g.) zip has a file table that can be accessed without decompression.
- easytiger 4y agoi see what you mean. Well rar does what you want i think.
- smileybarry 4y agoRAR is problematically proprietary though, and I'm not sure where it stands on licensing to other programs.