Re: creating live virtual files by concatenation

[Yoanis Gil Delgado <fred@uh.cu>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>>Now let us say I am creating sort of a virtual text file (code.js)
>>that is a live-concatenation of these files:
>># concatenate tooltip.js banner.js foo.js code.js
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>>Note I am not talking about the cat(1) utility. I am thinking of
>>code.js be always a live concatenated version of these three, so when
>>I modify one file, the live-version is also modified.
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>>What puprose I might have? Network-related. Say, I have an HTML file
>>that includes these three files in its code.
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>Try FUSE.
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Yes that's the best solution. Email me if you have a question about how 
to accomplish this. Here at
our school we have created a fuse filesystem that "glues" files in a 
single one.

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>>If I had a live-concatenated file, I could reference it in the HTML file
>>so that the browser does not have to download three files but just one.
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>>This would surely reduce network overhead of downloading the same amount
>>of data but within just one connection, reduce resource usage on the client
>>and possibly (depending on implementation) reduce the cost of accessing
>>three individual files on the server.
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>Have you ever heard of persistent connections with HTTP/1.1?
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>Jan Engelhardt
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