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Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip
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Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Aug 2002 13:20:50 +0100 |
Hi Mark,
> Find a generic C library (free source, maintained by a third party)
> which sits on top of libc which gives transparent access to various
> file types and can be programmed by the groff level (to allow/prohibit
> various types of compressions, data source types etc...).
There's zlibc which is a library which intercepts open(2), etc., to
provide transparent .gz-decompression. Linux and Solaris AIUI.
http://zlibc.linux.lu/
> 4. Phenomenal possibilities: groff would be able to read off FTP,
> HTTP, a record of a database, various compression/encryption types
> etc...
There are already things like ftpfs, and tarfs. It could be that a
filesystem is a better place to put this kind of thing. Plan 9 has some
very nice situations where its many file systems make things a lot
simpler. Doesn't GNU Hurd also stride towards user-space `file system
servers'?
This is probably getting further OT now...
Ralph.
- Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip, Ralph Corderoy, 2002/08/24
- Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip, Mark Veltzer, 2002/08/24
- Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip, Ralph Corderoy, 2002/08/24
- Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/08/25
- Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip, Alejandro López-Valencia, 2002/08/25
- Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/08/26
- [Groff] Re: transparent gzip, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/08/27
Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip, Emmanuel Thomé, 2002/08/25
Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip, Emmanuel Thomé, 2002/08/25
Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip, Ralph Corderoy, 2002/08/25
Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip, Colin Watson, 2002/08/25
Fw: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip, Alejandro López-Valencia, 2002/08/25