> >Now let us say I am creating sort of a virtual text file (code.js) >that is a live-concatenation of these files: ># concatenate tooltip.js banner.js foo.js code.js > >Note I am not talking about the cat(1) utility. I am thinking of >code.js be always a live concatenated version of these three, so when >I modify one file, the live-version is also modified. > >What puprose I might have? Network-related. Say, I have an HTML file >that includes these three files in its code. > Try FUSE.
>If I had a live-concatenated file, I could reference it in the HTML file >so that the browser does not have to download three files but just one. > >This would surely reduce network overhead of downloading the same amount >of data but within just one connection, reduce resource usage on the client >and possibly (depending on implementation) reduce the cost of accessing >three individual files on the server. > Have you ever heard of persistent connections with HTTP/1.1? Jan Engelhardt --