GNO + HardPressed

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

    I sat through an impressive demo of HardPressed last night at the
usergroup meeting and I have a few questions.  As I understand it, HP
will uncompress a file when you read to it, or compress a file if you
write it out to disk.  What happens if I try to do something like "cat
file1 file2 file3 file4 >> blah", where all five files are compressed? 
Can someone try this?  Will HardPressed correctly unsqueeze "blah",
append the other four files, then recompress it?

    I also heard complaints about slow directory access which leads to
long rehash times in GNO.  Since you can give HP a certain amount of RAM
as a cache, would it be possible to have it cache directory information
as well in a future release?
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