Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Tonnerre
2004-09-05T11:56:13Z

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Salut,

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:51:12PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> FWIW, this is how Windows does it now. As of XP, 'Find files' has an
> option, enabled by default, to look inside archives. If you tell it to
> look for a driver in a given directory it will also look inside .cab
> and .zip files. It's extremely useful, I would imagine someone who uses
> XP a lot will come to expect this feature.
>
> Of course, no idea how it's implemented, but users like it.

The trick is that their tools are aware of it, and that the library
the programs use supports on-the-fly decompression.

Same applies to Spotlight for Tiger.

Tonnerre

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