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But then you are not using tar, you are doing your own file format atop of tar.
by johannes1234321 6mo ago
But then you are not using tar, you are doing your own file format atop of tar.
- QuantumNomad_ 6mo agoI suppose you are right about that. But it would still be a valid tar file that can be viewed and extracted with normal tools. Kind of similar to how a .docx file can be extracted as zip but still has additional structure to its contents.
- chungy 6mo agoWhat are you really proposing? That a first ".INDEX" entry be made that contains the offsets of all the other members? That could work in a backwards-compatible way (as long as no standard tar utility makes modifications to the archive...), but it's hamfisted. Just use Zip. It's already a well-known format with numerous implementations and already does the job that you want to do.