Well, the one problem I can see if that it becomes very hard to link to a specific file within the zip file.&nbsp; <br /><br />For instance, with the audio files, we have index files that let you link directly to a particular section/chapter.&nbsp; If that file is within a zip file, that becomes a problem.<br /><br />Josh<br /><br />
<p>On Aug 9, 2009, <strong>Marcello Perathoner</strong> &lt;marcello@perathoner.de&gt; wrote:</p>
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<blockquote class="email_quote" style="border-left: 2px solid #267fdb; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 1.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Joshua Hutchinson wrote:<br /><br />&gt; Any chance of creating on the fly zips of some of the books?  For instance, the <br />&gt; audio books are huge and usually divided along chapter lines.  Single file zips <br />&gt; are very useful (and something we've done on some of them manually) but the <br />&gt; space waste is huge.  On the fly zipping of those files would save huge in <br />&gt; storage space.<br /><br />The other way round would be much more useful: store only a zipped <br />version of everything.<br /><br />All browsers support unzipping on-the-fly (all bibrec pages we serve are <br />in a compressed format since years now) so the only people who'd notice <br />anything was the ftp users. (But he who has mastered to type "ftp" can <br />also be made to type "unzip", so no problem there.)<br />_______________________________________________<br />gutvol-d mailing list<br /><a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org" target="_blank">gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org</a><br /><a class="parsedLink" href="http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d" target="_blank">http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d</a><br /></blockquote>
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