Re: Loading things directly from targz/zip files?

[Stefan Mattauch <stefan mattauch post rwth-aachen de>]

Daniel Burrows wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:16:26AM +1300, Sam Vilain was heard to say:
> > Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu> writes:
> >
> > >   I've noticed that gmc doesn't support opening files which are inside archives.
> > > Given that it currently lets you look inside an archive as if it were a
> > > drectory, this would be a nice feature to add; would it be possible to
> > > teach gmc that (for example) display lets you pipe data in instead of loading
> > > it from disk, or would this be too baroque an addition?
> >
> > Hmm.  .tar.gz isn't a very efficient format for doing this sort of
> > thing.  You have to decompress the entire tar file to find out it's
> > contents.  This is not the sort of behaviour that should be default.
> > Not for large files, at least.
> >
> > Other file formats common in the DOS/Windows world, such as zip, arj,
> > rar etc are searchable without decompression, so these should probably
> > be openable like a directory.
>
>   Ick.  I didn't think of that.  OTOH, a lot of the time I get these tiny
> tar.gz files with a few pictures in them and want to look at the pictures
> without extracting the whole file...
>
>   Daniel
>

Hi all,
Another nice feature I have seen on a computer was, that as the icon of the picture-
file was the picture itself and not an special icon for jpeg or tga or whatever. Would
this be very difficult to implement ?


Stefan