Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!samsung!think.com!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: does a zgrep exist? (zgrep <> zcat | grep) Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 22:37:06 GMT References: <194@univaq.sublink.org> <1991Feb21.074647.6115@robobar.co.uk> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 22 In-reply-to: ronald@robobar.co.uk's message of 21 Feb 91 07:46:47 GMT In article <1991Feb21.074647.6115@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes: | 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 .... You can already do this by writing your own NFS server. It's only a SMOP.... (small matter of programming). -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com