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From: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Compressed folders
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.224618.1206@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US>
Date: 23 Mar 91 22:46:18 GMT
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lou@isc.intel.com (Lou Poehlitz) wrote:
>What I suggest is an elmrc option that allows per folder configuration.
>
>The format could be something like:
>
>folderconfig = "folder1,sort_order,read_program,save_program:\
>               folder2,sort_order,read_program,save_program:"
...
>For a compressed folder, the config would look like
>
>folderconfig = "bigfolder, rev_received, uncompress, compress"

One major complication lies with the 'c' command to change folders.
Before it leaves the current folder, it checks for the existence
of the folder to specified. Since some read/save program pairs deal
with suffixed file names (e.g. uncompress/compress deal with .Z),
elm would have to have the name of the folder before the read_program
is applied as well as the name of the folder after the read_program is
applied in order to deal with it.
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Rob Bernardo					Mt. Diablo Software Solutions
email: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US		phone: (415) 827-4301