I have written a zip class that uses functions and code from miniz to: Open an archive, Close an archive, Open a file in the archive, Close a file in the archive, and write to the currently open file in the archive.
Currently opening a file in an archive overwrites it if it already exists. I would like to know if it is possible to APPEND to a file within a zip archive that has already been closed?
I want to say that it is possible but I would have to edit all offsets in each of the other file's internal states and within the central directory. If it is possible - is this the right path to look in to?
Note: I deal with large files so decompressing and compressing again is not ideal and neither is doing any copying of files. I would just like to "open" a file in the zip archive to continue writing compressed data to it.
Compressed files aren't working like a file system or folder, where you could change individual files. They keep e.g. check sums, that need to apply for the whole archive.
So no, you can't do such inplace, but have to unpack the compressed file, apply your changes and compress everything again.