smaller zip-like format?

[Eric]

David Garamond wrote:

> Ian Bicking wrote:
[...]
> Yes, .tar.bz2-ing probably produces the smallest archive nowadays. But I
> can't extract members without uncompressing the whole compressed stream.
> Even .tar.gz and .tar.lzo are still too inefficient for my needs.
> 

If you want to get individual files without decompressing the whole archive, 
then you probably want to create a .tar archive which contains individually 
compressed files.  This will have a lower compression ratio than a tar.xx 
file, however.

-Eric