Re: new filesystem: zipfs

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 00:43:51 -0500


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike A. Harris <mharris@ican.net>
To: Anthony Barbachan <barbacha@hinako.ambusiness.com>
Cc: Parmelan, Edouard <EP510777@exchange.FRANCE.NCR.com>; 'linux-kernel'
<linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sunday, January 10, 1999 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: new filesystem: zipfs

>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
>
>Linux software galore: http://freshmeat.net
>

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