Re: Request: Test suite for EFS.

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> utilities to extract the data, and yes, if we used the zip format, this 
> would be done for us, but zip does not handle dead space as efficiently 
> as possible, in fact not really at all, and I'm not really sure this 
> tasks requires the compression, or would even really provide sufficient 
> benifit from having the compression given that one of the objectives is 
> to provide a mechanism to tie images and other pre-compressed things to 
> documents.

The contents of the compound file can be compressed(using the standard libz
stuff I guess) before they are written into an EFS file, so there's not really
much need for extra compression.

iain