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Article #1003Re: Compressed folders
From: Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster...
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 17:52
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 17:52
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[ Regarding "Compressed folders", voder!nsc!taux01!tasu74!crehta@bloom-beacon.mit.edu writes on Feb 1: ]
>
> I have a few folders which are large enough, and accessed rarely
> enough that I keep them compressed. On the other hand, I access
> them frequently enough to consider the manual uncompress and
> re-compress to be a pain.
>
> Do others share my emotions? How hard should it be to have mush
> recognize file names ending with .Z in the folder directory
> to be compressed, zcat them into its temporary file, and re-compress
> when a save is issued to that folder?
Yep - this is definitely the case for me too. Is also way down on
my plate of things to do. From what I can see it's easy enough for
folders, since you don't have to worry about anyone else accessing
them at the same time.
l & h,
kev
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