> david@megginson.com wrote:
> > processing the first files while the rest are arriving. ZIP is
> > useless for this purpose, since it keeps the directory information at
> > the end; TAR is good, as (I think) is CPIO.
>
> The Java ARchive (JAR) format has manifests at the very beginning,
> so that the correct digital signatures can be computed during download.
A JAR file is a Zip file. You can change .jar to .zip and load
it on up in WinZip, or any other zip program. The manifest is placed in a
special directory in the zip file. I actually mapped the .jar extension
to WinZip. I just jar up all my package directories with source, and
Winzip allows me to easily do a wildcard delete on all *.java files :-)
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