From: muts@muts.hacktic.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: Re: automatic old-file compression Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 17:09:05 GMT
In article <738470525.F00013@remote.halcyon.com> Rob.Levin@p13.f213.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin) writes:
Looking forward happily to when this is completed. Question: Would it
be an excessive amount of work to provide an option whereby compressed
tar files could be accessed as if they were directories? I understand
updates might be a bit slow, but it would sure save disk space....
Such a specific (and expensive) thing should not be in the kernel
(i.e. in the filesystem). Why not use emacs, which has a tar-mode. If
you also use the uncompress.el, you can open a .tar.z file as if
opening a directory, and access, copy and write single files in the
archive.
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