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Re: Suggestion


On 06-Feb-1998, Trent Jarvi <win32@jarvi.ezlink.com> wrote:
> 
> As long as your going through all this work to make win32 usable why not add
> something to gcc thats good for everyone especially win32.  Add the ability
> for gcc to search .tgz's for include files simular to java searching zips 
> for classes.

Unlike `.zip' files, `.tgz' files are not a suitable format for this.
Zip files allow you to get a list of the files in the archive without
decompressing it, but gzipped tar files do not (compare the efficiency
of `tar -ztf foo.tgz' vs `unzip -l foo.zip' for a large archive).

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