[fpc-pascal] TStream descendant to compress/decompress gzip data from another stream

Michalis Kamburelis michalis.kambi at gmail.com
Thu Mar 28 17:11:02 CET 2013


Flávio Etrusco wrote:
> "Members" refer to each available section according to the flags.
> Re-read this whole paragraph you posted and a few following you'll
> realize only one "file" is allowed in a gzip file/blob.
>

I think this confusion comes from the fact that 
http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/gzip.html#Advanced-usage says 
clearly that "Multiple compressed files can be concatenated". It doesn't 
mean that gzip is a good format to keep multiple-file archive (for this 
you should use tar), as multiple compressed files will be decompressed 
to a single stream on output.

Michalis



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