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-FastJar 0.90
-
-12/6/1999
-=======
-
-FastJar is an attempt at creating a feature-for-feature copy of Sun's JDK's
-'jar' command. Sun's jar (or Blackdown's for that matter) is written entirely
-in Java which makes it dog slow. Since FastJar is written in C, it can create
-the same .jar file as Sun's tool in a fraction of the time. On my system,
-Sun's jar takes 50 seconds to create a 10MB jar file, while FastJar only takes
-a little over a second.
-
-The reason I wrote fastjar is that building .jar files is a regular process
-of the build where I work. The way we have it setup, you have to re-create
-the .jar file everytime you want to test it out, which is about every 5 minutes
-when I'm busy coding. The .jar file wasn't -that- big, but it did take about
-30 seconds to be made, and watching all the garbage collection messages was
-pretty irritating as well. I probably wasted a half-hour a day watching
-Sun's jar tool chug along. By writing the program in C, I spend much less time
-banging my head against the monitor waiting for the build to finish. Yay!
-
-FastJar has been tested on Solaris and Linux 2.2.x systems and nothing else.
-It should compile/run without any problems on either system, provided you have
-zlib installed.
-
-Please mail any bug reports to burnsbr@ucs.orst.edu.
-
-If you use FastJar and want me to add the rest of the features, send me mail
-(toast@users.sourceforge.net). I'll be much more likely to put more work into this
-if I know other people find it useful other than me.
-
-As always, this not being a final release, bugs may exist. I test each
-release pretty well, but I can always miss things...
-
-Compression will slow things down quite a bit. A 10MB jar file takes about
-1 second on my machine without compression, and 9 seconds with it. If you
-want fastjar to be fast, use the -0 (zero, not O) flag to turn off compression.
-
-Supported flags:
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--c | create a new archive
--v | verbose output
--f | specify archive file name
--m | specify existing manifest file
--M | don't create manifest
--0 | store only
--C | change to dir
--t | list contents
--x | extract contents
-
-Unsupported flags:
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--u | update exisiting archive
-
-If you use the "unsupported" flags, nothing bad will happen, but then again
-nothing will happen at all.
-
-
-Unsupported features (in this release):
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- * updating
- * full manifest support (?)
-
-Order or features for the future:
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- * archive updating
- * full manifest support
- * filtering
- * dependency checking
-
-
-===========================================================================
-http://fastjar.sourceforge.net
-toast@users.sourceforge.net
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