Re: [Groff] Compression support for files?

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Hello Ralph,

Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:
 |Hi Steffen,
 |
 |> The original intent of Matthew Dillon i think was to be able to
 |> blindly use the `.so' request and make it work regardless of wether
 |> whatever file is compressed or not.
 |
 |You dislike .pso because your run in `safer' mode?

yes and no.
It has nothing to do with that in particular, it is just that
i think software should behave, or offer the possibility to
behave. 

 |Knowledge of compression and suffixes doesn't belong in every Unix
 |program.  For the system-wide savings you seem to be after, a filesystem

The problem here however is that the preprocessor oriented troff
cannot simply be extended with another preprocessor to get that
done.  At least soelim(1) needs to know about the compression
extensions, too.  The next patch at some later time will extend
searchpath to only optionally include the decompressor lookup, for
(.so and) soelim(1).

 |that compresses transparently is worth considering.
 |https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression

Hm.  Well, encrypting anything at least isn't worth considering no
more now that people get arrested unless they offer the keys.

--steffen