From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7330 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Pieri Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: compressed nnfolder archives Date: 24 Jul 1996 09:34:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147658 6842 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:00:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:00:58 +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 HAA06648 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 07:02:59 -0700 Original-Received: from unilab.dfci.harvard.edu (unilab.dfci.harvard.edu [155.52.46.57]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 15:35:39 +0200 Original-Received: (from ratinox@localhost) by unilab.dfci.harvard.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA02688; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:35:03 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Andy Eskilsson's message of 24 Jul 1996 07:51:40 +0200 Original-Lines: 37 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.37/Emacs 19.31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7330 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7330 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> "AE" == Andy Eskilsson 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). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMfYmeJ6VRH7BJMxHAQEvIAQAlA1HF/bPAmm3cCQITO/i9R8zJww30QpH Rwc6DSR4gfKlzCSOOck0790mrzyr2CP9dICTEILNTWKQhjgNRdckA9gKRNO5Fk7g fC8E1A1CGldUbGUl+ObbDaH2Hl46NJ32PFI0tcC3J36c22pdvOG0GdiNLqWcM56E OckWtC8R8qw= =0oC1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Richard Pieri/Information Services \ Curiosity never killed anything, except \ maybe a few hours. -A cat's guide to life http://www.dfci.harvard.edu/ \