Re: package badness

At 15:44 03/12/98 +0100, Jan Vroonhof wrote: >Of course one wonders why XEmacs is using external utilities anyway >:-) We already have tar-mode.el and libz linked in. Emacs never really >has been compatible with the unix small utils philosophy anyway. This was one thing I was thinking of trying to implement. It presumably would not be too hard to come up with a coding system of type 'compressed and do appropriate magic. I would still like file-coding to be on by default. Maybe we could do this for 21.2?

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