Re: [SLUG] Pine vs compressed mail

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 18:56:49 EST


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?

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