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From: lou@isc.intel.com (Lou Poehlitz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Compressed folders
Message-ID: <1210@intelisc.isc.intel.com>
Date: 25 Mar 91 23:33:34 GMT
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rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo) writes:

>lou@isc.intel.com (Lou Poehlitz) wrote:
>>What I suggest is an elmrc option that allows per folder configuration.
>>
>> text deleted
>>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.

Yes, a good detail point.  It could be dealt with by having the folder
name substituted in for %s.

folderconf = "bigfolder,rev_received,cat %s | uncompress -c,cat %s | compress"

With the proper handling to fd's, I think this could work for having
encrypted folders also.

folderconf = "secret,mailbox_order, crypt < %s , crypt < %s"

The key would be to get the fd that the key is prompted for on mapped to the
terminal in elm.