Tar question...

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 5:03 am, david nicol wrote:

> I've often thought that a tool that mounts a tar archive like
> a file system would be very useful, if it existed it would work for
> this purpose.

MC (Midnight Commander) will indeed do so, as will Konqueror (visual file 
browser in KDE).  Pretty sure most of the modern file browsers do so.  I'm 
starting to keep some of my doc files in compressed format.