Re: new filesystem: zipfs

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:53:58 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Anthony Barbachan wrote:

>You can sort of do this already with Midnight Commander, which uses a
>virtual filesystem allowing transparent access to archives and network
>resources.

That works well, but keep in mind if the "x" permission bit is on
the file, midnight interprets it as a binary executable and tries
to run it with bash instead of interpreting it as a zip file...
;o(

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