On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Ron Youvan wrote:
> >>_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.
Looks like "bzip2 -d < mbox.2005.11.25.bz2 | less" on mine. Does yours do
something different?
-- "Never go off on tangents, which are lines that intersect a curve at only one point and were discovered by Euclid, who lived in the 6th century, which was an era dominated by the Goths, who lived in what we now know as Poland." - Unknown from Nov. 1998 issue of Infosystems Executive.----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 18:00:31 EDT