Subject: Compression in PINE ?

From: Petr Skoda <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 08:27:25 +0100 (MET)

Hi, PINE-wizards,

I was just stroken by an crazy idea, so don't take me serious, but maybe 
it is not crazy enough... ;-))

As the PINE has been used mostly for the processing AND SAVING of text mail
and the lot of text messages in folder may become very large, what about
a built-in compression and decompression routines ( I know, that the 
decompression can be very fast opposite to compression -- e.g ARJ).
I mean by that a compressed folders (switchable by some option in .pinerc)
would be used. Whole folder would be decompressed at once to some temporary
file (or virtual memory) so all operations would be unaffected. 

Regards,

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 09:15:50 -0800 (PST)

Petr,

This has been suggested before.  Our basic opinion is that disk space is 
cheaper than the extra CPUs we would have to buy to support compression 
for a given amount of raw data.  If you would like to write a c-client 
driver for compressed mailboxes, we can probably incorporate it into the 
distribution.  Look in c-client/mbox.c for a template you might want to 
start from.

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

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From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 09:24:28 +0100

On Mon, 14 Feb 1994, David L Miller wrote:
> for a given amount of raw data.

The rest of the PC world seems to think otherwise.....