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- From: dodd@mycenae.cchem (Lawrence R. Dodd)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: Re: How does one read a compressed file into a buffer?
- Date: 31 Jul 92 08:20:35
- Organization: Dept of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Message-ID: <DODD.92Jul31082035@mycenae.cchem>
- References: <BRUNNOCK.92Jul30164412@e40-008-7.mit.edu>
- <1992Jul31.024250.20367@u.washington.edu>
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- In-reply-to: chuan@milton.u.washington.edu's message of Fri, 31 Jul 1992 02:42:50 GMT
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- >>>>> On Fri, 31 Jul 1992 02:42:50 GMT, chuan@milton.u.washington.edu (Chuan
- >>>>> "infamous" Lee) said:
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- Chuan> In article <BRUNNOCK.92Jul30164412@e40-008-7.mit.edu>
- Chuan> brunnock@athena.mit.edu (Sean Brunnock) writes:
- >
- >Hello. I seem to recall that there was a command to open
- >compressed files and read them into a buffer in uncompressed
- >form.
- >
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- Chuan> You need a file called uncompress.el to do the trick. I am
- Chuan> emailing that file to you. Since uncompress is not loaded
- Chuan> initially, you have load it in your .emacs file.
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- An alternative:
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- GNU Emacs Lisp Code Directory Apropos
- "~/" refers to archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/
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- crypt 90-01-09
- Kyle Jones, <kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net>
- ~/misc/crypt.el.Z
- Handle crypt/compress/compact files.
-
- I think it works much better than [un]compress.el (which b.t.w comes with
- 18.58)
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