On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Jason Linhart wrote:
>
> The Macintosh version of Analog already works with compressed DNS cache
> files automaticaly. On the Unix version, it wouldn't be that difficult of
> a change to the source. You need to popen the file and pipe it through
> zcat instead of just opening it. The restriction is that this can only
> work in DNS READ mode, DNS WRITE would result in the compressed DNS cache
> file getting corrupted.
>
Would people find this useful? I've never thought it would be all that
useful because you would have to (i) be using DNS READ or LOOKUP, not WRITE;
(ii) have such a long DNS file that you don't want to store it uncompressed.
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