OpenAmiga (112/964)

From:Dave Thiede
Date:6 Sep 2000 at 15:11:40
Subject:RE: AMIOPEN: AmiPak

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Steenbergh, Barry wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> How does everyone feels about "on-the-fly" decompression? Such as where
> the file system automatically recognizes that a file is compressed and takes
> appropriate actions to uncompress it as it is read. This would let you do
> things like: 1>Superview MyPicture.GIF.amp and view the picture without
> having to unpack it first. Would this be "a good thing(tm)"?
>
> Barry Steenbergh
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As long is you could still access the compressed version! How else could
you compress and send that compressed file elsewhere?

dave

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