From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7318 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Borges Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: compressed nnfolder archives Date: 23 Jul 1996 15:27:31 -0600 Organization: CIRES, University of Colorado Sender: mdb@cdc.noaa.gov Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147648 6814 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:00:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:00:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA00725 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 14:49:45 -0700 Original-Received: from cdc.noaa.gov (manager.Colorado.EDU [128.138.218.210]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 23:27:45 +0200 Original-Received: from suomi by cdc.noaa.gov (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06924; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:27:33 -0600 Original-Received: by suomi (SMI-8.6) id PAA10394; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:27:33 -0600 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Attribution: mb In-Reply-To: Richard Pieri's message of 23 Jul 1996 09:41:10 -0400 Original-Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.37/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7318 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7318 >> On 23 Jul 1996 09:41:10 -0400, >> Richard Pieri(RP) wrote: RP> on-the-fly compression schemes (crypt++, jka-compr) likewise are RP> also never invoked. Renaming the file to remove the compression RP> extension will fail because the compression schemes use the RP> extension to determine compression type, if any. Not quite correct. jka-compr relies on the extension, but crypt++ does not. It peeks inside the file and uses a magic number technique. I've used crypt++ to automagically decode many gzip'd files w/o the `.gz' filename extension. -- -mb-