A fast way to read last line of gzip archive ?

[garabik-news-2005-05 at kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk]

Barak, Ron <Ron.Barak at lsi.com> wrote:
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> I thought maybe someone has a way to unzip just the end portion of the
> archive (instead of the whole archive), as only the last part is needed
> for reading the last line.

dictzip (python implementation part of my serpento package)
you have to compress the file with dictzip, instead of gzip, though
(but dictzipped file is just a special way of organizing the gzip file,
so it remains perfectly compatible with gunzip&comp.)


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