Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: does a zgrep exist? (zgrep <> zcat | grep) Message-ID: <1991Feb21.074647.6115@robobar.co.uk> Date: 21 Feb 91 07:46:47 GMT References: <194@univaq.sublink.org> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 32 lucrezi@univaq.sublink.org (Gino Lucrezi) writes: > In article , Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes: > > Following this trend you'll have a z ... sort of like > > r (rsh, rcp ...). Sounds like a call for a filesystem type which supports compressed files internally is required, + a new flag bit in st_mode to say that a file should be compressed by the filesystem code if possible. Of course, since compression shouldn't be in the kernel, your OS should support User Mode filesystems .... BSD 4.5 anyone ? :-) --> Followup-To: comp.unix.wishful.thinking > Why rule out some nifty programs such as zsh, which allows the user to type > compressed commands (damn useful on those slow lines). Naa, that's just Yet Another TELNET Option, which I would suggest only to take effect if telnet's in line mode. --> Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip > And of course there are still zcc, zgetty or /dev/znull... The latter gives me an idea, why not /dev/z/* as an excuse to put compression into the kernel and really annoy one or two people in this newsgroup ? -- Ronald Khoo +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com