Treating Compressed and Uncompressed Data Sources the Same

Dec 19, 2008, 22:04 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by David Sinck)

"Whether you're dealing with gzip'd files or uncompressed, you no longer have to treat them differently mentally. With a little more effort, bzip files also could be detected and handled."

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