Subject: compressing a pine folder/file

From: [email-masked] (Cynthia Guy)
Date: 3 May 1995 09:39:26 -0400

We are using Pine 3.91.  We have users that want to keep their monthly
folders.  Is there anyway in Pine to save the monthly folder as a file,
and compress it.  I have tried looking at the export and piping features but
cannot find anything that will work.

Thanks for any help.
Cynthia

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 14:00:36 -0700 (PDT)

Cynthia,

Pine does not currently support compressed folders.  There have been 
several requests, but we don't have the resources to implement them at 
this time.  

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

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On 3 May 1995, Cynthia Guy wrote:

> Date: 3 May 1995 09:39:26 -0400
> From: Cynthia Guy <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: compressing a pine folder/file
>

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From: Dan Schlitt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 11:33:41 -0400 (EDT)

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

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