Re: Automatic (de)compression

Steve Davies (dbristow@lynx.dac.neu.edu)
Sat, 7 Mar 1998 12:05:07 -0500 (EST)

Actually, there is also a libz that transparently decompresses-on-the-fly
any file you open while you are reading it (but doesn't decompress the
file on disk, only via a pipe)

David Bristow
dbristow@lynx.dac.neu.edu

On Sat, 7 Mar 1998 marcel@ch.twi.tudelft.nl wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Alex Ninaber wrote:
>
> > The question is: is it possible to write a module which automatically
> > (de)compresses certain files, or did someone already wrote a solution to
> > that problem?
>
> it has already been done, check the ext2fs compression pages at:
> http://netspace.net.au/~reiter/e2compr/
>
> marcel
>
>
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