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From: Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: GSoC - Some questions on the idea of
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:02:08 +0200
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I wonder if it could make sense to have some pluggable mechanism for file 
splitting. Something under the lines of filters, so to say.
Bupsplit can be a rather general mechanism, but large binaries that are 
containers (zip, jar, docx, tgz, pdf - seen as a collection of streams) may 
possibly be
more conveniently split by their inherent components.