From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 6:31:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.infowest.com (ns1.infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E6037B416 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 06:31:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from Presarionb (crempsh.dsl.xmission.com [166.70.27.90]) by ns1.infowest.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E76C212D9; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 07:31:13 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 07:30:42 -0700 To: unix@donfishback.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Lorin Lund Subject: Re: hd compression Organization: W.B. Software Inc. X-Mailer: Opera 5.11 build 904 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <20020108143113.4E76C212D9@ns1.infowest.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I suspect that what you want doesn't exist. I remember a slick utility that is available for Windows 9x called Zip Folders. It causes .zip files to be presented as a directory. That kind of thing would be the slick solution to what you want but I don't think such a thing exists for FreeBSD. 1/8/2002 7:10:11 AM, unix wrote: >On Monday 07 January 2002 11:36, unix wrote: >> I need suggestions on how to compress directories while enabling regular >> programs to access files in the directories without special commands or >> naming. >> >> I have a large amount (50 gigs) of data kept in text files that I need to >> access through a java program. I need to compress the files and have >> access to the data without changing the java program. >> >> Any Ideas??? >> >> Michael >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >Since I didn't get an answer to this in a 24 hr period, I'm guessing that it >is not possible??? or nobody knows how to do it??? or I'm asking a dumb >newbie question??? > >It is easy to compress an entire drive in windows, I assumed that FreeBSD >would have something better... > >Please help if you have any ideas. > >Michael > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message