On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:22:41AM -0800, James Morrison wrote: > --- Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's two ways for an app to support gzipped files: > > a) within the app itself, by recognising files with a .gz extension > > This is bad, extensions should not be trusted. Magic can > be used to determine if a file is compressed, and if so what library > function > to call to decompress it. There probably should be a hurd library to > do this > stuff so at some point we would be able to run both gzipped binaries > and bzip2'd > binaries. > > > b) using a translator > > > > You can't use the translator *all* the time, because you may want > > to > > manipulate the gzipped file itself. And doing it in the app has to > > be > > duplicated for every app. Therefore there IS no "right way". Do > > whatever is most convenient. > > > > > > > I agree. Btw, naming a non-gzipped file .gz breaks opening them > > with > > vim, and presumably every other app that already supports gzipped > > files. Being compatable is very important. > > Humm, it seems vim is broken.
It'd seem so. gv otoh works perfectly. I think quakeforge would be broken too (but it's *not* completely transparently handling of gzipped files - it'll send them over the network compressed). I can't think of any other apps at the moment. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
