Re: tlug: majordomo, gzip

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Craig Oda wrote:
    >> Hi, I'm thinking of compressing the tlug majordomo archives.

    Scott> gzip -9 < origfile > origfile.gz

for i in *; do gzip -c9 $i >$i.gz; done

    Scott> (not sure if you're asking how here, but just in case...)

    >> I thought I would leave them uncompressed in case some future
    >> search program needed to access the raw files to make an index
    >> or something.  Is there any problem with majordomo sending
    >> gzipped files with the "get" command?

    Scott> might be nice to modify majordomo to manipulate the .gz
    Scott> files directly - ie, ungzip them to a temp dir, mae the
    Scott> indexes, remove the stuff in the temp dir, so we don't have
    Scott> to keep 2 copies.

If you're going to modify for on-the-fly, and also for people with the 
capability, you ought to look at bzip2, which gives 10-20% better
compression than gzip.  Compression is slow, but decompression is no
slower than gzip.

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