Hi Folks.

I have a 21Gb bzip file I would rather not decompress as disk space is at a semi-premium.

the bzcat command allows me to "extract" the contents to stoud 

bzcat humungousfile.bz2 | less    

gives me the output I want to process

For running XMLSax on a file, I have some existing code to use...

|ios|

ios := (FileStream readOnlyFileNamed:('/your/path/to/the/big/xml/file.xml')).

[(DocDemoSaxHandler on: ios) pingevery:100000;  optimizeForLargeDocuments;parseDocument] timeProfile .

What I would like to do is have, from within Squeak access to that bzcat output via some sort of ReadStream.

Doable?

thx in advance.

tty