Re: [Groff] Compression support for files?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Steffen,

> The original intent of Matthew Dillon i think was to be able to
> blindly use the `.so' request and make it work regardless of wether
> whatever file is compressed or not.

You dislike .pso because your run in `safer' mode?

Knowledge of compression and suffixes doesn't belong in every Unix
program.  For the system-wide savings you seem to be after, a filesystem
that compresses transparently is worth considering.
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression

Cheers, Ralph.