Subject: Re: Cheesy compression/decompression in filesystem namespace (was
To: Brian C. Grayson <bgrayson@marvin.ece.utexas.edu>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/02/1999 20:32:45
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Brian C. Grayson wrote:
> A few months ago, I hacked mount_portal to provide an
> automatic filtering capability, suitable for
> compression/decompression. Some example uses, where the portal
> is mounted on /p:
> ...
Woah! Why don't we have this in-tree??
> #Match type stripkey cmd & args
> bzip2/ wfilter bzip2/ bzip2 -9 >
> bzip2:// wfilter bzip2:// bzip2 -9 >
> bunzip2/ rfilter bunzip2/ bunzip2
> http/ rfilter http/ lynx -dump
> http:// rfilter http:// lynx -dump
Time for a /usr/share/examples/portalfs ...! :)
Sounds as if we could nroff manpages that way on the fly, too... >:)
(and while providing a filter for roff, also add one for plain ascii, and
postscript, and html, of course! >:)
- Hubert
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