On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 10:48, Steve Downing wrote: > <crazy crack idea> > > Is it possible to mount a zip/gzip/bzip file as part of the filesystem, > so it gets decompressed on the fly and only when needed? Similar > to mounting an iso from a file I guess. > I have a 20Meg docs folder which I don't always need, and it inflates > to >100Meg, wasting a lot of space on the laptops' drive.
Open Office format is gzipped already (xml gzipped)!!! use it. heaps smaller than equivalent M$ word files. vim and gvim will directly edit and save a gzipped file. I assume that emacs and others have teh same capacities. The help in gvim is zipped, it is unzipped on the fly. If you are programming take a look at zlib, I use it and I read files either compressed or uncompressed. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
