Request: Enable compressed sdf.gz import

Hi,





would it be possible to enable sdf.gz import?





Thank you


Tobias

hi,





I think I've never heard such a requirement before. I think it could be potentially interesting feature, but:


- there are many import formats


- there are many import formats


- we would need somehow support all combinations (ok, actually unzip/untar... would be just some kind of pre-processor)


- not sure I know any other software which supports import/open of its files compressed somehow. Like MS Word is not opening xyz.doc.zip etc. or is it? It's usually user's responsibility to prepare (unzip/...) the appropriate file format.





On the other hand unzipped sdf/tab/csv are usually much bigger then compressed versions so maybe this feature can safe some temporary disk space. But is this the reason?





So I think it could be useful, but as there is simple workaround (unzip the file manually) I am not sure if this is the most important thing now. We have long list of planned features - for example also those which you requested in other post (www field, field types for images, etc...).





Petr

Marvin supports reading compressed files, so it should be reasonably simple to add this to IJC.


We'll look into it.





Tim