> >> I've been thinking about having a go at a zfs (zip file system)
> >> or tgzfs (tar-gzip file system) that works along the lines of the
> >> Windows ZipMagic program. Basically, it'd be a loopback system
> >> that allowed the contents of a zip or tar-gzip file to be treated
> >> as a directory.
>
> I had it pointed out to me that a .tar.gzip file would be particularly
> difficult to use since gzip compresses everything from start to end,
> so I would probably look at either .zip or a .tar of a collection of
> .gz files, and deal with that later...
BTW I have this done :-). It is working on my machine, and I'm now
polishing it. I've stolen code from mc, so I can do tar, tgz, arj,
zip, zoo, ..., and ftp. I'm doing it using fake NFS server. Problem is
that NFS server is signle threaded.
Pavel
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