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author | Christophe Lincoln <pankso@slitaz.org> |
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date | Sun Mar 26 21:40:53 2017 +0200 (2017-03-26) |
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al@17259 | 1 The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format. Important |
al@17259 | 2 design decisions include an easily extensible XML table of contents for random |
al@17259 | 3 access to archived files, storing the toc at the beginning of the archive |
al@17259 | 4 to allow for efficient handling of streamed archives, the ability to handle |
al@17259 | 5 files of arbitrarily large sizes, the ability to choose independent encodings |
al@17259 | 6 for individual files in the archive, the ability to store checksums for |
al@17259 | 7 individual files in both compressed and uncompressed form, and the ability |
al@17259 | 8 to query the table of content's rich meta-data. |