Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

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> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote:

>> Firstly, if I have to do it from a Gnome program, about the only 
>> program where looking in a tar file is visibly useful is Nautilus. 
>> Ironically, clicking on a tar file in Nautilus doesn't work, 
>> despite having a dependency on gnome-vfs2. :/

> Do you have file-roller installed?

> I can open tar/zip/rar/etc.. files from anywhere in gnome2, eg in 
> Galeon I can click on a tar.gz URL (http or whatever) and have it 
> open it in file-roller, from where i can browse the files to my 
> hearts content.

  But can you actually do things with these files? Can you run
  applications or edit files directly, or is there need for temporary
  unzip first?
  
  ~S
  
> regards,

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