Re: XARCHON Data files

["hursh" <hursh@sparc.isl.net>]

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From: Ronen Tzur <rtzur@shani.net>
Reply-To: xarchon-l@seul.org
Date:  Tue, 26 Mar 2002 20:29:05 -0500

>Hello!
>
>
>On the matter of symlinks and friends.   It seems nobody likes symlinks but 
>me.   :-)   I do agree they might be more problematic in some situation.   Oh 
>well, we'll go for a sprite configuration file.
>
>
>On Monday 25 March 2002 13:10, capmikee@home.martnet.com wrote:
>>
>> I think we've got a good plan here: keep icons in xpm format, and zip
>> them up to make a single theme file. Both xpm and zip (or tgz, etc)
>> are easily accessible standards.
>
>Personally I prefer uncompressed tars, as they would be easiest to handle.  
>And in a UNIX environment, they seem, at least to me, more popular than zip.

I spat out zip just because I know of libraries that handle it fairly transparently.  Are the any good libs for reading a tar file?  

Dan