Re: Question

From: Peter Jones (jonespr_at_optushome.com.au)
Date: 08/23/03 

Date: 23 Aug 2003 00:53:14 GMT

Steven Scott <sscott@invatron.com> wrote in
news:3f463d7b$1_4@corp.newsgroups.com:

> A second question I have concerns the hard drive. Is there a
> compression program that works via the operating system to compress
> all stored files and expand them as they are used similar to the
> Compress option of Microsoft Windows? I am using a computer for the
> HTML documents that does not have a lot of hard drive space, and I
> would like to take advantage of the compression tools when storing the
> documents as text compresses really well. I need the tool to work
> without scripting though as people will be trying to view the
> documents via a normal web browser at times as well.

I'm not sure about something running in the background -- but I believe
apache can be configured to un-gzip documents on the fly, so the
solution you're looking for may be as simple as to gzip each html file.
Do look into that further, though, because I'm far from certain (I may
be thinking of something completely unrelated.)

Having said that, you may also wish to look into "compression file
systems" -- I found "ShaoLin CogoFS"
http://www.shaolinmicro.com/product/cogofs/ which is a commercial
product, there may be others...

Pete.

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