Hello,

I looked for this information in several places, including bzip2 source
code, but I as not able to find a satisfying answer: is there a way to
get the uncompressed size of a file compressed with bzip2 without
decompressing it ?
Gzip stores this information at the end of the compressed file, but
bzip2 does not seem to keep track of it.

thanks

On 2006-08-21, pierre.maziere@gmail.com <pierre.maziere@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I looked for this information in several places, including bzip2 source
> code, but I as not able to find a satisfying answer: is there a way to
> get the uncompressed size of a file compressed with bzip2 without
> decompressing it ?
> Gzip stores this information at the end of the compressed file,

don't relay on that. you can concatenate two(or more) gzipped files and 
on uncompressing it behaves like a single file.

begin 644 1.gz
M'XL(`&W%ZD0``RM)+2[A`@#&-;D[!0```!^+"`!VQ>I$``-3R$TM+DY,3^4"
)`&J>`?,)````
`
end

Bye.
   Jasen