seek in a zip file??

[Radovan Garabik]

Enrique <enrique.palomo at xgs-spain.com> wrote:
> hello all!
> i´m working with big size files, to maintain them, it would be better to
> compress the files.
> to recover a little part of the big file, how can i extract that little
> parte instead of the whole file that will bring a lot of time?
> Can i know the offset in a zip file?? i know the offset in the big one.
> Any idea will be welcome.
> 

I used dictzip for the same purpose, and it works well.
download serpento from
http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/serpento/
and look for dictzip module
(compress the files with dictzip from dictd package)

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