Subject: Re: Reading compressed files

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 13:27:03 -0700 (PDT)

It should be reasonably easy to add a compressed folder driver to Pine
(c-client actually), perhaps as little as a few dozen lines of code.  Contact
[email-masked] if you would like some pointers getting
started... 

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On 19 Aug 1994, Ken Mayer wrote:

> I was wondering how difficult would it be to extend pine to be able to 
> read compressed mail folders? I have a lot mail that I need to keep around, 
> but rarely read. It would be great if I could gzip them down and when I 
> needed to, pine would automatically gunzip them for me.
> 
> Ken
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From: [email-masked] (Ken Mayer)
Date: 19 Aug 1994 11:23:28 -0400

Ken

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From: [email-masked] (Gary Burlingame)
Date: 20 Aug 94 00:56:12 GMT

>[email-masked] if you would like some pointers getting

Are you kidding? Do you know how many people would LOVE to have this?