From: Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>
Subject: Re: nnml compression: state of the art?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:01:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01Mar29.170521est.115284@gateway.intersys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31yrg4bzz.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>
* prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) on Thu, 29 Mar 2001
| Skips the file if its name is not numeric, or if it is not a regular
| file, or if it is smaller than 65536 bytes, or if it has been accessed
| within the last 0.1 days.
Ah, well, that 65k size minimum makes it useless for nnml, where the vast
majority of messages are 5-10k. When compressing nnml files you want to
hit every file that is larger than the block size. I don't know anything
that uses 64k blocks other than Windows.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-29 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-29 8:22 Bill White
2001-03-29 13:04 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2001-03-29 15:47 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-03-29 17:12 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2001-03-29 19:15 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-03-29 19:21 ` Paul Jarc
2001-03-29 22:01 ` Stainless Steel Rat [this message]
2001-03-30 13:01 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2001-03-29 19:46 ` Michael Livshin
2001-03-29 19:47 ` Alan Shutko
2001-03-29 22:26 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-03-30 10:44 ` Bill White
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