From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35538 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnml compression: state of the art? Date: 30 Mar 2001 05:01:44 -0800 Message-ID: References: <01Mar29.105117est.115281@gateway.intersys.com> <01Mar29.141948est.115533@gateway.intersys.com> <01Mar29.170521est.115284@gateway.intersys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171266 3627 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:34:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:34:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "(ding)" Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 15189 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2001 13:05:09 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15184 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2001 13:05:09 -0000 Original-Received: from halfdome.holdit.com (merlyn@209.102.105.64) by gnus.org with SMTP; 30 Mar 2001 13:05:09 -0000 Original-Received: (from merlyn@localhost) by halfdome.holdit.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id FAA18482; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 05:01:45 -0800 Original-To: Stainless Steel Rat In-Reply-To: <01Mar29.170521est.115284@gateway.intersys.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.3 Original-Lines: 26 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35538 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35538 >>>>> "Rat" == Stainless Steel Rat 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. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!