> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 22:53:27 +0100 (BST)
> From: Chris Sawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> .ps.gz can be opened directly by Ghostscript [...]
> .pdf.gz can be opened directly by Ghostscript [...]
but there are or were some problems, that all files named *.*.gz were
then routed to gsview/ghostscript :-(
[...]
> BUT the mutopia ftp server can ungzip files "on-the-fly", ie. if you
> request ftp://sca.uwaterloo.ca/pub/Mutopia/something.ps and all that
> exists in that directory is something.ps.gz then the ftp server will
> un-gzip something.ps.gz and supply it as something.ps.
[...]
> However, the problem of scores still exists - how do you cope with a
> .ly file that outputs multiple ps files, or even a score consisting of
> multiple .ly files - this scenario is not currently covered by Mutopia.
The server may be configured such a way that a user may get the contents
of one directory "xyz" (inclusive all subdirectories) as zip or tar or
tar.gz file, if she/he orders "xyz.zip" or "xyz.tar" or "xyz.tar.gz"
("xyz.tgz"). This may be forbidden by putting a file named ".notar" into
a directory. This makes sense e.g. for the top-most directory of a big
ftp-server :-)
-- Werner
