Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:54:40 +0200 | From | Tonnerre <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Salut,
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:51:12PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > FWIW, this is how Windows does it now. As of XP, 'Find files' has an > option, enabled by default, to look inside archives. If you tell it to > look for a driver in a given directory it will also look inside .cab > and .zip files. It's extremely useful, I would imagine someone who uses > XP a lot will come to expect this feature. > > Of course, no idea how it's implemented, but users like it.
The trick is that their tools are aware of it, and that the library the programs use supports on-the-fly decompression.
Same applies to Spotlight for Tiger.
Tonnerre
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