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 In article <9208250059.AA01538@soda.berkeley.edu>,
 phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin) writes: 

 Paul> uncompressing them on the fly.  Being able to autoload such
 Paul> files would make my .elc library collection quite a bit
 Paul> smaller.  Maybe it could notice a .Z or .elz extension.

You're rather spoilt for choice here. The e-lisp archive contains the
following 

	 GNU Emacs Lisp Code Directory Apropos -- "compress"
"~/" refers to archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/

compress2	      89-02-01
     Mark J Hewitt, <mjh@kernel.co.UK>
     ~/misc/compress2.el.Z
     Edit compressed files transparently
compress	      89-02-15
     Stephen Gildea, <gildea@bbn.com>
     ~/as-is/compile.el.Z
     Automatically handle .Z files.
crypt		      90-01-09
     Kyle Jones, <kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net>
     ~/misc/crypt.el.Z
     Handle crypt/compress/compact files.
enh-uncomp	      
     Joe Wells, <jbw%bucsf.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu>
     Enhanced uncompress.
find-comp	      
     Joel Spolsky, <spolsky-joel@yale.arpa>
     ~/as-is/find-comp.el.Z
     Find-file w/auto uncompress.
info-Z		      89-07-20
     Dirk Grunwald, <grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu>
     ~/packages/info-Z.el.Z
     allow for compressed info files
uncompress	      88-07-20
     18.55 dist
     Temporary major mode used for .Z files.
z-mode		      88-05-19
     Alan Stebbens, <aks@hub.ucsb.edu>
     ~/as-is/z-mode.el.Z
     Auto-uncompress.
zcat		      87-05-13
     Graham Gough, <graham@r3.cs.man.ac.uk>
     ~/packages/zcat.el.Z
     Automatic decompression of .Z files



Graham
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