wok-current diff xar/description.txt @ rev 25445

itaka: fix wget_url
author Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org>
date Tue Sep 06 07:38:52 2022 +0000 (2022-09-06)
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     1.4 +The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format. Important
     1.5 +design decisions include an easily extensible XML table of contents for random
     1.6 +access to archived files, storing the toc at the beginning of the archive
     1.7 +to allow for efficient handling of streamed archives, the ability to handle
     1.8 +files of arbitrarily large sizes, the ability to choose independent encodings
     1.9 +for individual files in the archive, the ability to store checksums for
    1.10 +individual files in both compressed and uncompressed form, and the ability
    1.11 +to query the table of content's rich meta-data.