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- From: dodd@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu (Lawrence R. Dodd)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: find-file-maybe-uncompress? (for Gnu under unix)
- Date: 7 Jan 93 15:02:13
- Organization: Dept of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Univ, NY, USA
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- Message-ID: <DODD.93Jan7150213@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu>
- References: <lkolp9INNhg1@bathtub.cs.utexas.edu> <1993Jan7.205343.28668@cognos.com>
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- In-reply-to: jimp@cognos.COM's message of Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:53:43 GMT
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- >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Patterson <jimp@cognos.COM> writes:
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- Jim> schrag@cs.utexas.edu (Robert C. Schrag) writes:
- Jim> : Does anybody have a version of find-file (or find-file-noselect) that
- Jim> : will automatically uncompress the file, if it has the .Z suffix?
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- Jim> Check your local Emacs lisp archive for a module called "zcat.el".
- ...
- Jim> Once this is done during setup, zcat-buffer will automatically be
- Jim> invoked on any file with a .Z extension (quite neat). We've put it
- Jim> into our site-init.el file.
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- I think you will find crypt.el more robust. Available via anonymous ftp to
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- /archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/misc/crypt.el.Z
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- I just posted a modified version of this to gnu.emacs.sources that will work
- with GNU zip files as well as tar-mode.el
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- Larry
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