Subject: Re: compressing a pine folder/file

From: [email-masked] (Clifford)
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 17:35:29 +0100

Cynthia
Why not start pine with a script which uncompresses the relevant months.
Current an however months back by default and perhaps a month name as
a parameter to unpack as far back as that month.

Clifford W Fulford
University of North London
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There should be nothing to stop a user from compressing a folder 
themselves provided they are on a host where there is a compress program 
available.  As I understand it the mail folders are just files.  This 
particular request was for compressing the monthly old mail files and 
this approach would not be that bad in this case.  The user would just 
uncompress them, again manually, if the need to look at the contents arose.

The only requirement that this would place on Pine would be that it 
handle the compressed file in a place where it expected to find a mail 
folder.

It is a far cry from compressing and uncompressing folders on the fly but 
it should take care of some situations.

Dan Schlitt                           School of Engineering Computer Systems
[email-masked]        City College of New York
(212)650-6760                         New York, NY 10031
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