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From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: /usr/spool/news on >1 fs?
Summary: What an *interesting* idea!
Message-ID: <dcfZA#1VLAZV=eric@snark.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 88 13:02:03 GMT
References: <161@hawkmoon.mn.org> <4276@pasteur.berkeley.edu> <586@obdient.uucp> <535@pcrat.uucp>
Organization: Erisian Liberation Front
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In article <535@pcrat.uucp>, rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
> Maybe 3.0 already does this, but couldn't you decompress only
> the first, say, 24 lines, and leave the rest of the article
> stored compressed?  Then you could browse at full speed, while still
> saving space.

I *like* it! You get the week's prize for interesting feature suggestion.
If I can figure out a clean way to implement this without breaking the
reader layering too badly, I'll do it.
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