>>>>> "NHW" == Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
"ColdWater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I started programming in C++ almost 4 years ago (under
>> MS-DOS). Most of my experience on it is realted to
>> compression/encryption programs (which I love!). 'cause of that
>> I was looking aroud the list to see if it was possible for me
>> to begin my contribution to the project by trying something
>> related to that (like tar or gzip). Unfortunatelly both tar and
>> gzip seems to be already tested. Yet, is there anything that I
>> could do to help in the tar/gzip packages, or they are "already
>> prepared to the Hurd" (docs, manual, etc.)?
NHW> At the moment, tar does not understand translators. If you
NHW> could get this working (under both the hurd and gnu/linux),
NHW> that would be great.
NHW> Additionally, executing compressed executables goes not work
NHW> at the moment (it appears to be a bug in the exec server),
NHW> you could also check that out.
And a some sort of crypt (file as?) filesystem translator
would be nice.
Paul.
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