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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Cc: XEmacs Developers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: jka-compr and Mule
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>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

Hrvoje> What is the problem, exactly, between jka-compr and Mule?  Since we
Hrvoje> really do need an on-the-fly compressor/decompressor, and jka-compr
Hrvoje> looks simpler than crypt, I've decided to have a look at it.

Probably really easy.  Just make sure that all I/O operations on
compressed data uses the binary coding system, and all I/O operations
on non-compressed data uses the ``appropriate'' coding system (hmmm, harder).

Martin

