From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37829 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Have `use-long-file-names' and `compress' as a server parameter? Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:37:59 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035173515 17648 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:11:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:11:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 29393 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2001 11:38:22 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (195.204.10.139) by gnus.org with SMTP; 17 Aug 2001 11:38:22 -0000 Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA17737 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:38:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 998048287 14727 195.204.10.148 (17 Aug 2001 11:38:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Aug 2001 11:38:07 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Basement Jaxx's _Rooty_: "Where's Your Head At" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > Wouldn't that be a good idea? Well, compressing files is something that I'd think you'd want to do in a batch-oriented fashion since it can be quite time consuming. That is, you get a gazillion nnml files, and then when you run low on disk space, you just say "gzip *" in the directory. So I don't know whether this would be all that useful. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen