Re: package badness

Andy Piper writes: > 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? Isn't that what crypt does?