Re: System.IO.Compression

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Mark Rae wrote:
> > You could decompress by writing each decompressed chunk you read into a
> > MemoryStream instead, then get the array after that. You might waste a
> > bit of time/memory copying things around, but it would only need to
> > read the data once.
>
> Yes, I see what you're saying.
>
> I'm also reading quite a few postings around the net that the new
> System.IO.Compression functionality "isn't very good", at least not for file
> compression / decompression - is this the general consensus around here?

Well, it's somewhat limited in terms of it being solely stream
compression - zip files themselves can't be extracted, etc. I don't
know much more about it than that though.

> The 3rd-party component I've been using up to now is available for .NET2, so
> I might just continue to use it anyway...

SharpZipLib by any chance? I've used that too, and it works well -
although there's a bug which I reported a while ago which worried me
somewhat. (It was unable to decompress its own compressed data.) It may
have been fixed by now, of course...

Jon

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