does a zgrep exist? (zgrep <> zcat | grep)

[Michael Meissner]

In article <1991Feb21.074647.6115 at robobar.co.uk> ronald at robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:

| lucrezi at univaq.sublink.org (Gino Lucrezi) writes:
| 
| > In article <DANJ1.91Feb15162042 at cbnewse.ATT.COM>, Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM writes:
| > > Following this trend you'll have a z<everything> ... sort of like
| > > r<everything> (rsh, rcp ...).  
| 
| Sounds like a call for a filesystem type which supports compressed
| files internally is required, + a new flag bit in st_mode to say
| that a file should be compressed by the filesystem code if possible.
| 
| Of course, since compression shouldn't be in the kernel, your OS should
| support User Mode filesystems ....

You can already do this by writing your own NFS server.  It's only a
SMOP.... (small matter of programming).
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Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?