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 _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
