smp7 - jungle outpost

Discussion in 'Frontier and Player Outposts' started by zulu9, Mar 13, 2012.

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  1. I DEED STAHP! :confused:

    Thanks for your assistance! :D
    Cypher_Rahl, Oct 9, 2012
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  2. A tar file is like a ZIP file or minecraft.jar. It's a file that contains files inside it. I'm thinking it might be better to use ZIP files instead of TAR files because they're formatted different.
    shavingfoam, Oct 9, 2012
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  3. Dang. Got unwatched and missed page 360°
    penfoldex, Oct 9, 2012
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  4. Maybe untaring them per directory before parsing would speed things up. Or depending on your you parse them untar them all. I think starting up the untar for every single small file causes a lot of overhead.
    zulu9, Oct 10, 2012
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  5. You could try it. I suspect tat TAR, RAR, ZIP, 7Z, and any other compressed format is going to give you the same issues. I have no idea how much space your files would take in a DB, but you might want to try slurping them into one and see what happens. Alternatively, you could play with some of the free online apps sites such as Google app engine. (I think you can still get this for free...)
    btribble, Oct 10, 2012
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  6. Now this I don't understand. :(
    mba2012, Oct 10, 2012
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  7. Don't you mean App Inventor? If so you can still get it for free but it is run by MIT.
    mba2012, Oct 10, 2012
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  8. A little true, a little false. :p Tar files are not quite like zip files or jar files. Tar files are not compressed, and are not meant to be random-access. This is unlike zip and jar (and jar is just a zip file anyway) which are (usually) compressed, and definitely made for random-access.

    By random-access, I mean that you can easily get at any specific file inside the archive. In tar, files are just strung together one after the other, so in order to find a specific file in tar, you have to go looking through the file until you find it. Zip, on the contrary, keeps a "table of contents" of its files, so that locating a file is much quicker and less work.

    And yes, you can compress tar files, but then they're not pure tar files anymore. Commonly you'll find tar.gz (tar compressed with gzip) or tar.bz2 (tar compressed with bzip2), but they are just that: First tar-ed, and then afterwards gzipped or bzipped.
    ilyvion, Oct 10, 2012
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  9. I be waving white flag as retreat, while people are speaking about advanced computer stuff
    Christopheur, Oct 10, 2012
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  10. wat is this?
    JazzyFina, Oct 10, 2012
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  11. A Thread.
    Xinn, Oct 10, 2012
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  12. wow I did the #7232?
    JazzyFina, Oct 10, 2012
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  13. no i mean in this thead
    JazzyFina, Oct 10, 2012
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  14. The above stuff that nobody really understands is three guys nerding out (no offense to you guys)
    The thread in general is for:
    Xinn, Oct 10, 2012
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  15. ok thank you
    JazzyFina, Oct 10, 2012
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  16. this look cool!
    JazzyFina, Oct 10, 2012
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  17. Indeed :cool:
    Stads0, Oct 10, 2012
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  18. Pardon, I didn't mean to go off-topic. I just felt compelled to clarify about something somebody said. :p
    ilyvion, Oct 10, 2012
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  19. Haha that's fine, we tend to do so at times. Several pages back there's talk about military stuff and then other pages we have other stuff.
    Xinn, Oct 10, 2012
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  20. It's okay, when you go all nerdish it put's a smile on everyone's face :D
    (It's kinda funny, not just you but people's reactions :p)
    Stads0, Oct 10, 2012
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