This is exactly what I don't understand. This is a world where no other computer exists? What about a windows user that has a smart device of some sort that is

This is exactly what I don't understand. This is a world where no other computer exists? What about a windows user that has a smart device of some sort that is acting up. They're able to dump the files, but now they have to read them. It's a more realistic scenario than a haiku box, but its the same idea. And for the record, I am against gzip logs too. I think if you need to save that many logs you should be exporting them to another system instead of archiving them locally.