Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!inria!geocub!anthes
From: anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Franklin Anthes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Compression device
Message-ID: <291@geocub.greco-prog.fr>
Date: 13 Oct 90 13:16:06 GMT
Organization: University of Bordeaux I - FRANCE
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I'd really like to find an amiga device (comp:?) which would automatically    
compress/decompress any files stored on it. I don't think such a device would 
be able to handle direct access ( it could probably fake it though ). But     
it still would be a really usefull tool.                                      
                                                                              
You're a little tight on disk space? Just copy some files over to to the      
comp: device, delete the originals and voila you have some free space on      
your disk. Of course all the other operatations on files (execute,delete,     
read,write,rename etc.) would be supported.                                   
                                                                              
                                                                              
Does such a beast exist already for the Amiga? If not is this a feasible idea?
This would have to be a Dos device, wouldn't it?
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	Frank Anthes-Harper :  Bien le bonjour de la France
	anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr