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> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Spam wrote:

>>  Yes, some archive types can't be partially unzipped either. But my
>>  point is that it wouldn't be transparent to the application/user in
>>  the same way.

> It doesnt matter whether it is transparent to the application. It can
> be the application which implements the required level of 
> transparency.

> User doesnt care what provides the transparency or how it's 
> implemented.

  Indeed. I hope I didn't say otherwise :). Just that I think it will
  be very difficult to have this transparency in all apps. Just
  thinking of "nano file.jpg/description.txt" or "ls
  file.tar/untar/*.doc". Sure in some environments like Gnome it could
  work, but it still doesn't for the rest of the flora of Linux
  programs.



  ~S

> regards,

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