Salut,

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:50:16AM -0500, David Masover wrote:
> Transparently?
> 
> It _works_ to do
> 	zcat file.gz > /tmp/file
> 	vim /tmp/file
> 	gzip -c /tmp/file > file.gz
> 	rm /tmp/file
> You can even do that as a script, call it zvim.  You could even do it as
> a generic script, where "vim" is replaced with "$1".  But is it as
> elegent as transparently compressed files?

...or   you    get   yourself    a   sane   editor    which   supports
gzopen/gzread/gzwrite/gzclose. You can do  that in userland, no kernel
implementation needed.

			    Tonnerre