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From: kevin@Corp.Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Compressed folders
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Date: 1 Feb 90 17:52:41 GMT
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[ Regarding "Compressed folders", voder!nsc!taux01!tasu74!crehta@bloom-beacon.mit.edu writes on Feb  1: ]

> 
> I have a few folders which are large enough, and accessed rarely
> enough that I keep them compressed.  On the other hand, I access
> them frequently enough to consider the manual uncompress and
> re-compress to be a pain.
> 
> Do others share my emotions?  How hard should it be to have mush
> recognize file names ending with .Z in the folder directory
> to be compressed, zcat them into its temporary file, and re-compress
> when a save is issued to that folder?

Yep - this is definitely the case for me too.   Is also way down on
my plate of things to do.  From what I can see it's easy enough for
folders, since you don't have to worry about anyone else accessing
them at the same time.

                l & h,
                kev