Re: More mail, compression, and folders.

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From: Mark R. Ludwig
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1993 17:44

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>>>>> "Jack" == Jack Twilley <twilley@dewey.nl.nuwc.navy.mil> writes:

Jack> What I have done since mentioning the problem is to InfoZip all my
Jack> folders, then unzip +inbox, +drafts, and +outgoing.

Since MH stores messages separately, unless you have very large
messages, compressing the individual messages on most Unix filesystems
will gain you little.  If you're Zipping whole directories into a
single file, then I can see you might gain quite a bit.$$
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Subject: Re: More mail, compression, and folders.
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