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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Compressing file system ?
Date: 6 Aug 1993 22:22:40 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717
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References: <23rh55$ct@encap.Hanse.DE> <23tr2j$3tt@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> <23tsn3$7e@Germany.EU.net> <1993Aug6.200839.9675@udel.edu>
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In article <1993Aug6.200839.9675@udel.edu>,
Scott C. Gray <sgray@ori.cis.udel.edu> wrote:
>In article <23tsn3$7e@Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
>>
>you can treat them as if they were uncompressed).  Or imagine being
>able to cd into a tar file. Or a tar.Z file.  This won't happen, but
>it is an interesting idea.

I read somewhere that somebody had written a Mach server that would do this,
same with ftp sites.
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