Re: Existing translators

[Neal H Walfield]

> fortune translator and also more useful translators such as a tar+gzip/bzip2
> translator which would allow to `mount' an archive.
> 
> Has anyone implemented the latter? Is there somewhere a list of the available
> translators (beside the system translators)?

For gzip files, use:

        settrans -ac /path/to/node /hurd/storeio -Tgunzip

bzip2 archives are handled in a similar way: just substitute bunzip2
for gunzip.  With respect to tar, no translator has been written yet.