OpenAmiga (115/964)

From:Gregor Goldbach
Date:6 Sep 2000 at 14:08:49
Subject:Re: AMIOPEN: AmiPak

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:36:36AM -0400, Steenbergh, Barry wrote:

> How does everyone feels about "on-the-fly" decompression? Such as where
[...]
> things like: 1>Superview MyPicture.GIF.amp and view the picture without
> having to unpack it first. Would this be "a good thing(tm)"?

How about making it completely transparent? I didn't read the other
postings completely, but if AmiPak is an abstract "service" it ought
to hide the information that the "file" is "compressed".

Gregor
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