Re^2: seek() functionality on pipes

I chose not to go with the Perl decompression libraries because I want to allow for multiple formats (bzip2, gzip, zip, etc) without a whole lot of extra code.

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Re^3: seek() functionality on pipes by RMGir (Prior) on Jul 22, 2008 at 11:23 UTC
Reasonable. Although note that IO::Uncompress::AnyInflate supports zip and gzip, so you might be able to use that for those formats if it seeks faster, and fall back to a pipe/pseek solution for bzip2. Mike	[reply]