# But the is a perfect exampe of something that can already be done
# today in userland -- in this inctance making cp aware of tar.gz files
# and their internals. Obviously you might want to do this in an
# external library or something which reads common configuration files
# and then load handlers based of file extension or something...
Yes, but then you've got to do this for everything you want to have
support it (just *how* many unix utilities are there out there?)... doing
it at a lower level provides uniform support (and hence less confusion for
Joe User), without requiring mass-modification.
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