Re: [Arpix-devel] tgzlib - support for .tar.gz!

[Hongli L. <ho...@te...>]

On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 18:23:49 Giovanni Corriga wrote:
> Well, when handling compressed tar archives you have two options:
> 
> 
> 1. handle them directly
> 2. use a temporary file (first uncompress the archive, then open it).
> 
> I thought that as long as .tar.gz archives are the most common
> compressed tar archives, it would be more efficient to handle them
> directly. Obviously, I'm not going to write separate code for e.g.
> .tar.Z archives.

I think using a temporary file is faster.
Perhaps this is better: leave tarlib as it is (no Gzip support).
GarpTgz will decompress the tgz to a temporary file, and keep it there
until GarpTgz is destroyed.
That would avoid re-decompression every time a function is called.

What do you think?