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annotate xar/description.txt @ rev 18798
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Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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Sat Jan 09 18:56:52 2016 +0100 (2016-01-09) |
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1 The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format. Important
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2 design decisions include an easily extensible XML table of contents for random
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3 access to archived files, storing the toc at the beginning of the archive
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4 to allow for efficient handling of streamed archives, the ability to handle
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5 files of arbitrarily large sizes, the ability to choose independent encodings
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6 for individual files in the archive, the ability to store checksums for
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7 individual files in both compressed and uncompressed form, and the ability
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8 to query the table of content's rich meta-data.
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