Re: tlug: majordomo, gzip

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Craig Oda wrote:

> Hi, I'm thinking of compressing the tlug majordomo archives.
> 
> [majordom@example.com tlug]$ ls
> tlug.9507  tlug.9512  tlug.9605  tlug.9610  tlug.9703  tlug.9708
> tlug.9801
> tlug.9508  tlug.9601  tlug.9606  tlug.9611  tlug.9704  tlug.9709
> tlug.9802
> tlug.9509  tlug.9602  tlug.9607  tlug.9612  tlug.9705  tlug.9710
> tlug.9803
> tlug.9510  tlug.9603  tlug.9608  tlug.9701  tlug.9706  tlug.9711
> tlug.9511  tlug.9604  tlug.9609  tlug.9702  tlug.9707  tlug.9712
> 
> I want to give a command like gzip -some_flag *  and have a copy
> of all the files compressed, but still leave the original intact.

gzip -9 < origfile > origfile.gz


(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?

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


> 
> Regards,
> Craig
> 
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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