Re: [SLUG] Pine vs compressed mail

From: Ron Youvan (ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 18:10:50 EST


>>_Not_ what I wanted. I wanted to see the individual messages. How do I do
>>that, and still have it compressed? Even sucky compression will probably
>>turn out pretty well, as the files are mostly English text.

> Could make a small partition with a compressed filesystem. Probably
> there's a better solution.

   If you don't mind looking at them with other than pine (you can still
range them and past them into pine or any other app.) You can bzip2 them
with mc with a F2 then "b" then F3 will view them and you can search
for anything with F7. I've done this for over 10 years.

-- 
    Ron
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