From: Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: compressed nnfolder archives
Date: 24 Jul 1996 09:34:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7log9g4gh.fsf@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andy Eskilsson's message of 24 Jul 1996 07:51:40 +0200
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>>>>> "AE" == Andy Eskilsson <flognat@fukt.hk-r.se> writes:
AE> Hmm I think I switched from crypt++ to jka-compr when crypt++ didn't
AE> work too goo good together with rmail (yep it was those old days),
Back when 'crypt++' only had one '+' in the name, eh? That was the last
time I looked at it, and jumped to the initial version of jka-compr.
AE> I think it was that crypt++ couldn't handle appending to files.
That was at least as much the fault of the Unix compress as crypt+. The
Unix compress format is not a streaming format, so you cannot append to
an existing, compressed file. You could get around that limitation by
visiting the file before appending. Emacs will append to the file
buffer instead of the disk image, and you can write out the modified
buffer afterwards. This is how I did it back when I used Rmail.
As for Gnus, support for compressed files is still problematic at best,
and practically nonexistant when it comes to file extensions on numeric
file names (nnm[lh] folders, for instance).
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prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-07-24 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-23 6:30 Erik Selberg
[not found] ` <x7viff9jex.fsf@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu>
1996-07-23 21:27 ` Mark Borges
1996-07-24 5:51 ` Andy Eskilsson
1996-07-24 13:34 ` Richard Pieri [this message]
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