Re: [developers] Offline Edition of Wikipedia

[Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn at diwi dot org>]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2008, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
> in http://code.google.com/p/eclipsedia/wiki/Roadmap
> > 3. It would be great if we manage to use 7zip archives directly.
> 
> I already may a tool called itar, it generate .tar.bz2 that can be
> randomly accessed very fast
> please see www.thwab.net

Otherwise, there is the LZMA SDK...

For example, using the lzma package (in Debian), you'll have to do:
 % tar --lzma -cvf dir.tar.lzma dir

(note that a new liblzma is currently under development)

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Mohammed Adnène Trojette