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Hi JY,

  I don't want to be sure, but i believe that ROOT allows you to read 
from archives (zip?) specifying the archive name in the url. I want to 
check.

Fabrizio





Jean-Yves Nief wrote:
> hello,
> 
>          ROOT is giving the possibility of reading zip archive, which is 
> a nice feature, though I did not test it yet
> I think I found a potential interest for it outside the ROOT framework 
> in astrophysics: some experiments are reading FITS files which are not 
> rather small (10's of MB) and they usually organize them in zip archive 
> that can be easily stored into HPSS (less files, less bookkeping, users 
> happier, HPSS admins happier too :-) ).
> I was wondering if the same ROOT feature would be difficult to implement 
> on the TXNetFile side if it is not implemented there.
> one other thing: based on the current documentation, client side 
> decompression is not supported yet, right ?
> thanks in advance,
> JY