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Re: Suggestion
- To: Trent Jarvi <win32 at jarvi dot ezlink dot com>
- Subject: Re: Suggestion
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 14:59:18 +1100
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <199802070422.VAA11105@jarvi.ezlink.com>
On 06-Feb-1998, Trent Jarvi <win32@jarvi.ezlink.com> wrote:
>
> As long as your going through all this work to make win32 usable why not add
> something to gcc thats good for everyone especially win32. Add the ability
> for gcc to search .tgz's for include files simular to java searching zips
> for classes.
Unlike `.zip' files, `.tgz' files are not a suitable format for this.
Zip files allow you to get a list of the files in the archive without
decompressing it, but gzipped tar files do not (compare the efficiency
of `tar -ztf foo.tgz' vs `unzip -l foo.zip' for a large archive).
--
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