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Re: Mail, compression, and folders?

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From: Richard Pieri
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1993 02:04
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>>>>> In article <TOMS.93Nov5174550@pdx069.intel.com>,
>>>>> toms@ichips.intel.com (Tom Shott) writes:

toms> Under v18 my experience was that jka-compress worked better for just
toms> this.

This may or may not work with MH. MH expects file names to be numbers; the
inclusion of the compression extension will probably confuse the MH
binaries to no end.

toms> There is a jka-compress modified for v19 but although it works fine I
toms> have been a diskhog and not used it w/ vm.

jka-compr19 has problems dealing with VM's funky autosaving tricks. To
date, I haven't been able to figure out *why*, which is pissing me off to
no end.

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From: ratinox@orodruin.ccs.neu.edu (Richard Pieri)
Subject: Re: Mail, compression, and folders?
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