Tarfile .bz2

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Jordan schrieb:
> When using python to create a tar.bz2 archive, and then using winrar to
> open the archive, it can't tell what the compressed size of each
> individual file in the archive is.  Is this an issue with winrar or is
> there something that needs to be set when making the archive that isn't
> there by default.

I believe it's an issue of the file format (tar.bz2). You don't compress
individual files, but you compress the entire tar file. So it is not
meaningful to talk about the compressed size of an individual archive
member - they are all uncompressed.

Regards,
Martin