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From: ortmann@plains.nodak.edu (Daniel Ortmann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FileSystem-level compression
Date: 16 May 1996 15:46:43 -0500
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network (NDHECN)
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Is design/coding work currently being done on filesystem-level
compression similar to XjoepxtOU?  (The naughty word is rotated by 1.)

perl -e 'foreach $c(split //,'XjoepxtOU') {print chr(ord($c)-1)}'

This seems like a rather important feature.
-- 
Daniel