Hi Steffen, > And i like to have a choice; having a choice is the essence of freedom
The free in free software doesn't mean everyone gets to add their favourite features into the canonical source of a program; a mess would result. If you really want programs to handle compressed files then investigate zlibc instead, an LD_PRELOAD library that intercepts open(2) and friends. http://www.zlibc.linux.lu/install.html That keeps the code separate to each program and gives just one thing to improve. Cheers, Ralph.
