On 8/14/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
bzip2recover. Genius. I've been wanting to do something like this for a long time, and the one thing standing in my way was that I couldn't figure out how to do the random access bit.
For those too lazy to read, here's the stroke of genius (IMHO): "We would certainly prefer not to use MySQL or any other database, since we are only *reading* Wikipedia, not writing into it. [....] we can use the bzip2recover tool (part of bzip2 distribution) to "recover" the individual parts of this compressed file: Basically, BZIP splits its input into 900K (by default) size blocks, [....] What this means, in plain English, is that we can convert the huge downloaded .bz2 file to a large set of small (smaller than 1MB) files, each one individually decompressible!"
Now, what's the applicable command to do this with the .7zip file?