Re: find-file-maybe-uncompress? (for Gnu under unix)

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From: Lawrence R. Dodd
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 15:02

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>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Patterson <jimp@cognos.COM> writes:

  Jim> schrag@cs.utexas.edu (Robert C. Schrag) writes:
  Jim> : Does anybody have a version of find-file (or find-file-noselect) that
  Jim> : will automatically uncompress the file, if it has the .Z suffix?

  Jim> Check your local Emacs lisp archive for a module called "zcat.el".
...
  Jim> Once this is done during setup, zcat-buffer will automatically be
  Jim> invoked on any file with a .Z extension (quite neat).  We've put it
  Jim> into our site-init.el file.

I think you will find crypt.el more robust. Available via anonymous ftp to 

  /archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/misc/crypt.el.Z

I just posted a modified version of this to gnu.emacs.sources that will work
with GNU zip files as well as tar-mode.el

Larry

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From: dodd@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu (Lawrence R. Dodd)
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Subject: Re: find-file-maybe-uncompress? (for Gnu under unix)
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:02:13
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