From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: off-topic: `virtual' files Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:05:09 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20100205.160509.211492106.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265382329 20883 80.91.229.12 (5 Feb 2010 15:05:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:05:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 05 16:05:26 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NdPkK-0001NP-3c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:05:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42734 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NdPkI-0005Xi-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:05:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NdPkD-0005Wd-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:05:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56489 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NdPkC-0005WO-GI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:05:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NdPk9-0004fM-GG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:05:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:46309) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NdPk8-0004eX-QX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:05:13 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Feb 2010 15:05:11 -0000 Original-Received: from 77-20-101-42-dynip.superkabel.de (EHLO localhost) [77.20.101.42] by mail.gmx.net (mp020) with SMTP; 05 Feb 2010 16:05:11 +0100 X-Authenticated: #54312696 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/+9J9v8lD+KHz04qOmKgME+d0MLsMO/uAKlrPc8e XtznAFG8+yQPiT X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.53 on Emacs 23.1.50.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.68999999999999995 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:120943 Archived-At: Folks, my question is completely off-topic; please reply privately to not pollute this list. Reason for asking here is that I have absolutely no idea where I shall ask, and searching in the internet didn't yield anything of relevance. Sometimes I'm downloading big files which have been split into chunks, say, a 1GByte file into ten chunks with 100MByte each. Currently, I have to concatenate all files into a new file to be able to access it as a whole. I now wonder whether it is possible to group these chunks into a virtual file (similar to virtual file systems), avoiding this copying. BTW, I'm using a GNU/Linux box. Werner