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- From: andreas@greif.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Eisele)
- Subject: Appending to a compressed file
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- Organization: IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:23:19 GMT
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- Is there a way to append data to a large compressed (*.Z) file that is
- more efficient than uncompressing+appending+recompressing?
-
- I don't know much about compression techniques, but I think ist should
- be doable in at least two ways:
-
- (1) By scanning the compressed file, a program should be able to
- compute the state the compressor was at the end of the original
- compression. It could then continue in this state to compress the
- appended data. This approach would at least prevent to re-write the
- compressed file.
-
- (2) In order to avoid re-scanning the compressed file, it might make
- sense to store the state of the compressor explicitly in an additional
- file. Of course this would decrease the effect of the compression, but
- might still be worthwile (esp. if the result, i.e. the compressed file
- w/o the state information is to be transfered).
-
- Has anyone in the compressing community already thought about that?
- Is there perhaps software available, already?
-
- Thank you for any information,
-
- Andreas Eisele
-
- P.S. Please reply by e-mail, I will summarize if there is enough
- interest.
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