Re: Bzip2 support

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Jun 26, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl> wrote:

> On 26 Jun 2019, at 19:41, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
>
> > It could probably be done (note that for decompressing capture files that would require the ability to do random 
> > access I/O,
>
> It (http://sourceware.org/bzip2/manual/manual.html#limits) now says: "Further ahead, it would be nice to be able to 
> do random access into files. This will require some careful design of compressed file formats."

gzip format wasn't carefully designed for that, either, but it can be - and has been - made to work.  It requires 
storing dictionary state.
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