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From: | Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: | Re: big file warning if compressed |
Date: | Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:22:11 -0700 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) |
Richard Stallman wrote:
Normally upon trying to open a large file, we get a warning like "file is bigger than XX MB, proceed?". However, the same file, if compressed, won't cause the warning upon attempts to open/view it. That is because Emacs has no way of telling how big it is until after uncompressing it.
That's not really true: GNU zip has the --list option, which generates output like: compressed uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name 12574759 58689536 78.5% foo.txt -- Kevin
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