Re: jka-compr support?

[Stephen Peters <speters@us.oracle.com>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@ccs.neu.edu> writes:

>You won't loose anything if you use jka-compr, but if you're using nnml
>or nnmh you will have problems because the backends operate on file
>names in buffers and not directly with the filesystem, so jka-compr's
>hooks never come into play and your compressed mail files don't appear
>as mail files.
>
>This little script (hack! hack!) [...]

I don't remember where I found it exactly, but I did discover an Emacs
Lisp file called jka-aux.el, which will modify the Emacs file location
routines so that trying to find "name" will automatically use
"name.gz" or "name.Z" if the former doesn't exist.  This makes the
backends work completely transparently, without hacks to the file
system.

Come to think of it, I think I found a pointer to that area from
Webcrawler...ah, here it is:

	http://www.fuentez.com/public-info/ding/ding.html

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