Compression formats with good support for random access within archives? [closed]
Take a look at dictzip. It is compatible with gzip and allows coarse random access. An excerpt from its man page: dictzip compresses files using the gzip(1) algorithm (LZ77) in a manner which is completely compatible with the gzip file format. An extension to the gzip file format (Extra Field, described in 2.3.1.1 of RFC … Read more