Re: nnml compression: state of the art?

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Rat" == Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

Rat> * prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)  on Thu, 29 Mar 2001
Rat> | Skips the file if its name is not numeric, or if it is not a regular
Rat> | file, or if it is smaller than 65536 bytes, or if it has been accessed
Rat> | within the last 0.1 days.

Rat> Ah, well, that 65k size minimum makes it useless for nnml, where the vast
Rat> majority of messages are 5-10k.  When compressing nnml files you want to
Rat> hit every file that is larger than the block size.  I don't know anything
Rat> that uses 64k blocks other than Windows.

Well, for my purposes, I seem to get a lot of MIME crap that I of
course archive because I'm a packrat (I keep bumping up against the
65536 file limit in glimpseindex!).  So this script is tailored to
compress these huge friggin attachements that people now seem to think
is OK to send.

I meant it as a model.  Lower that 65k down to 4k, and it does what
y'all were talking about.

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