Arnd posted on Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:22:27 +0000 as excerpted: > Compressing the files in $HOME/.pan2/groups/ would save a lot of space > for big groups, and therefore make it easier to take .pan2/ with you > onto space limited devices like netbooks, and or syncing it between > computers. > > Ideally this would be a per group setting, with a choosable compress > format (gzip, bzip2, etc.). > > Or is there a trick to do this right now?
In theory it could be done now, if you're using a filesystem like reiser4 or btrfs, both of which are supposed to have builtin/plugin on-the-fly compression available. A rather more practical alternative would be using a pan wrapper script that among other things, decompresses these files before pan starts, then waits around until it closes and recompresses them. I use a wrapper script here for other reasons, but not for file compression. FWIW, ordinary messages, both text and non-yenc binaries, should compress extremely well too, since text and both UUE and base64 encoded binaries are not particularly efficient, particularly UUE/base64 encoded binaries. However, pan's cache is only 10 MB normally anyway, reasonable as a text cache, but it'll blow away REAL fast as a binary cache, so unless you have manually increased the cache to multiple gigs as I do... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
