>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(
>
Strange, sometimes GNU leaves the execution bit on their archives but MC
still goes into them without any problems. Perhaps its an option or a
version difference.
>
>--
>Mike A. Harris - Computer Consultant - Linux advocate
>
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>
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