Re: [opensuse] Transparent Archive (TAR or Zip) Access for Linux?

On Friday 29 August 2008 09:28:38 am Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,

Does anyone know if there's a Linux counterpart to the Windows ability
to treat Zip files as if they're just directories, transparently
deriving directory information and automatically extracting their
contents on demand?

For what I'd like to be able to do, a KDE I/O slave will not suffice, it
has to be system-wide and transparent so arbitrary scripts and
applications can access it.


Thanks in advance for any pointers anyone has.



Randall:

That would appear to be a major redesign of how Linux and KDE (or Gnome)
interact.

Now, in vista and in KDE I can open compressed files as if they were a
directory, perform actions (open/save/edit) on included files and then leave
the compressed file with teh changes saved.

If you're looking at allowing KDE/GNOME apps - such as OpenOffice, Kate, GIMP
or vi to open/edit/save files in a compressed directory using the same model,
I would imagine you'd have to take the functionality out of of KDE/GNOME and
add it to the kernel modules that handle the disk subsystem. I just tried in
OpenOffice and Kate - as well as in Word 2003 under Vista - and none of the
applications were able to browse a compressed file as if it were a directory
then open the contents individually.




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