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From: rice@willow23.cray.com (Jonathan Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: selective saving
Keywords: compress
Message-ID: <134823.20473@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 20:17:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: timbuk.134823.20473
References: <1991Mar27.055657.1888@jpradley.jpr.com> <103159.13093@timbuk.cray.com> <1934@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
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In article <1934@chinacat.Unicom.COM> chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>In article <103159.13093@timbuk.cray.com>
>	rice@willow23.cray.com (Jonathan Rice) writes:
>>(Also, I'll add a big "me too" for compressed folders.)
>
>	$ ksh -c "time ( compress ~/Mail/Sent ; uncompress ~/Mail/Sent )"
>	real	1m56.72s
>	user	0m46.28s
>	sys	0m4.24s

Since I maintain one folder per correspondent or project:

616 >> ksh -c "time ( uncompress rao;compress rao )"  <<--my largest folder
real    0m9.48s
user    0m5.26s
sys     0m1.30s

9.48 seconds is less time than it takes to respond to an admin message "Disk
xxx is 97% full"...  So this can of course be made optional -- and as long as
I'm wishing instead of implementing, it can be made optional by folder
instead of for all of ~/Mail.  It wouldn't even have to be describable in
elmrc; just let elm recognize foldername.Z as a case that needs to be
uncompressed, and remember to recompress when changing out of that folder.

>Be careful what you ask for - you might get it.

That's the best news yet!

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