Subject: Enhancements

From: "Christopher \"AWOL\" Curtis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 15:53:55 -0400 (EDT)

I would like to see two things in the next version of PINE:
 *) A "fcc" entry in the address book.
 *) On the fly compression/decompression.

I'd like the "fcc" entry because some mailing lists don't seem to always 
receive the letters to them and it would be nice to have a copy on hand.  
I don't want to "fcc" every message I send because disk space at this 
site is so limited.

Again, because disk space is limited, it would be nice to see a way for 
pine to "gzip" its mail directories after reading them and to "gunzip" 
them when forming the index.  Will a feature like this be supported in 
the mailcap entries?  We'd like to create as few scripts as necessary.

-= Chris =-
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 13:56:01 -0700 (PDT)

Chris,

The next release of Pine won't have much of any change in the addressbook 
code, but there are some developments on the horizon that will probably 
cause a restructuring of the addressbook code.  There are also some other 
Fcc related enhancements coming.

A compressed folder mechanism is requested quite often, but it is not 
high on our priority list.  We feel that it is more cost effective (for 
the University of Washington) to buy extra disks than to buy the extra 
CPUs it would take to handle the compression/uncompression.  

However, if someone would like to write a compressed folder driver, it
shouldn't take more than a couple hundred lines of code (plus the zip/unzip
code).  Take a look at the file c-client/mbox.c for an example of a driver
that could be used as a pattern. 

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

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