At 25 February 2002, you wrote: >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.
cramfs will probably be the evntual winner, since it's not files I want to edit, just the entire Java 2 SDK documentation, in HTML format, so mounting it as regular files is what I need. That or one of these user-space filesystems Jeff cryptically referred to.... cheers -- Black holes were created when God divided by 0. http://www.helmsdeep.net/capn-k/ Linux | Windows | CAD | Audio Visualisation and more -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
