| From: | James Russell |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2000 at 14:50:29 |
| Subject: | Re: [RE: AMIOPEN: AmiPak] |
"Steenbergh, Barry" <BSteenbergh@metforming.com> 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)"?
This would be absolutely essential. No sane average user wants to even
know what the Hell a zip file is (or whatever file type) much less have to
worry about crap like Mac's stupid stuffit incompatibilities or any other
such nonsense. Compression on the end-user side should be completely
invisible and automated. My guess is that Amiga agrees and will
incorporate some type of automatic compression in the Amiga DE.
James
James Russell
Editor-in-chief Amiga.org
Developer forums at Amiga.org:
http://forums.amiga.org/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi
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