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On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 00:13 +1100, Peter Wang wrote:
> >
> > Just out of morbid curiosity, why is this nescessary?
>
> >From memory, the size of the chunk appears at the start of the chunk,
> but we don't know the size until the chunk is closed. So it is
> implemented by writing to a temporary file then looking at its size.
>
I wonder if we couldn't use a memory file for writing, like in expackf?
I guess, it would work in theory, but would be even more work to do..
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Elias Pschernig