Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:53:43 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: If we cannot trim subject lines... |
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On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> The only compelling reason I can see is: > > (1) Ordinary users wish to copy/move compound files as a single unit, > attach them to emails and put them on web sites. > > Which argues for automatic conversion to/from flat form on demand. > It could be done in user space, and a kernel hook could make it > transparent for all programs.
Uhmm.... tarball. I don't see much need to put that kind of stuff into the kernel. There are already userspace utils to handle it, and ones code can be written to talk to tarballs... Perhaps a nice library would help w/ that (If one hasn't already been written...)...
Stephen
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