From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24372 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Zander Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Future feature: Gzip of nnfolders? Date: 19 Jul 1999 01:33:29 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87d7xphwdi.fsf@pooh.fire-swamp.net> References: <87908lj2q0.fsf@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161950 8359 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:59:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:59:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "(ding)" Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA20505 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 04:37:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAB05106; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 03:34:11 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 19 Jul 1999 03:34:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA16455 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 03:34:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from pooh.fire-swamp.net (adsl-216-102-199-128.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.199.128]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA20334 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 04:33:34 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from srz by pooh.fire-swamp.net with local (Exim 3.02 #1 (Debian)) id 1168rZ-0000J4-00; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:33:29 -0700 Original-To: Stainless Steel Rat Organisation: speaking through, but not for, McKesson Corp. In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "18 Jul 1999 09:17:31 -0400" Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070093 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.93) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24372 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24372 >>>>> "Rat" == Stainless Steel Rat writes: Rat> Yeah... I was looking at a directory with all the messages Rat> having the same number of significant digits in their names. Rat> Of course, if you are going to use sort in this, it might be Rat> faster to use "ls -1f | sort -n | head -1" instead (-f tells Rat> ls not to sort the output). ObPointless: '-1' is the default behaviour when sending 'ls' output to a pipe. It's been this way forever (or thereabounts :)) -- Stephen --- "If 8-year-old boys discharging loaded firearms into their own legs isn't necessary to the maintenance of a well-regulated militia, I don't know what is." - Randal Cummings as reported in The Onion, 25/5/99