Patrick Strasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Remember that you can set a > > passive translator on any node, an empty file, a file with content, or > > a directory, or whatever. On the other hand, it is not possible to > > set a translator to a symlink (I don't think you can stack passive > > translators, can you?) > > One possibilty would be to store some configuriation in the file and > set a transloator that would use this configuration. Is this somthing > anyone has already tried? > A fortuner translator could the underlying file. > Just some thoughts.
I can think of more exciting things (but first I thought that would only be possible with a active translator). You can for example use tarfs on a tarfile. If tarfs supports this and you access the translator using io operations (like io_read) you can read the tar file. But you can also use directory operations. For example: emacs foo.tar.gz/src/foo.c (Using the translator) tar zxvf foo.tar.gz (Using the underlaying node) -- Marco
