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Author loewis
Recipients lars.gustaebel, loewis, rhettinger, rossmclendon
Date 2009-09-02.18:54:26
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> In light of Lars's comment on the matter, perhaps this functionality
> could be added to zip files only.  Surely it can be done, considering
> that numerous utilities and even Windows Explorer provide such
> functionality.

Are you sure they are not creating a new file in order to delete
content? I recall that early zip tools (e.g. pkzip) had a mode
where they would merely delete the entry from the directory, but
leave the actual data in the file. Would you consider that a correct
implementation? If so, *that* can be done, for zipfiles, AFAIU.

> I'll spend some time the next
> few days educating myself about zip files and how this might be
> accomplished.

Please do - you'll find that deletion from zipfiles comes in a can
full of worms.
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2009-09-02 18:54:27loewissetrecipients: + loewis, rhettinger, lars.gustaebel, rossmclendon
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