[Haskell-cafe] haskell zlip read position

[Henning Thielemann]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, rahul wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>    I am trying to parse a binary stream with the format for one entry
> [headers, zlib compressed content] , with multiple entries.
> I can use the Zlib library to get the content for the first entry after
> the headers, but I cannot find a way to get the offset to start parsing
> for the second entry.  Is there a way I can get this information out of
> ZLib? or is there a better approach to doing this? Any pointers would be
> very much appreciated.

As far as I know, these are compressors for single files. Multiple files 
can be compressed in connection with TAR, that can be manipulated from 
Haskell using the 'tar' package.