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[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Chriss,

Le 24 juin 05 à 17:17, Chris Sheffield a écrit :

>  I would think it would be faster to compress/decompress one file  
> as opposed to many, but it would also mean that upon restoring the  
> archive, I would need to decompress that archive and save it to a  
> temporary stack file, then delete that temp file when the process  
> is complete.

If you want to be flexible (for instance to display a file names  
list, choose one to decompress and so on without having to make any  
change to your archive - which is always better for security) you  
will compress the files first.
In addition, accessing to the needed data for archive management will  
be faster.
As for me I would try to avoid to manipulate files... if they don't  
need it.
Question of reliability :-)
My two cents.

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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