Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 21:37:08 GMT From: dolan AT fnoc DOT navy DOT mil (Kent Dolan) To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, postmaster AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: shrinking the clarkson.edu djgpp email log files DJGPP fans: To the suggestion that the sun.soe.clarkson.edu//pub/msdos/djgpp archives could be broken up into smaller parts, an alternate suggestion: original djgpp-announce size -rw-rw-r-- 1 dolan 316330 Aug 16 21:19 djgpp-announce after mail filter -rw-rw-r-- 1 dolan 208686 Aug 16 21:21 djgpp-announce after gzip -rw-rw-r-- 1 dolan 77476 Aug 16 21:21 djgpp-announce.gz The mail filter is the (nawk) one I posted to the djgpp echo a while back, that tosses out most of the "fluff" lines of the header, leaving just enough to still qualify as an email file that a Unix mail routine can process. Combined with gzip, it reduces the size of email echo log files to less than 1/4th the original size. This would save lots of download time for those accessing the files, and lots of storage space and download support resources for clarkson.edu. Combined with the suggestion to break up the files into sizes easier to chew, this would be a real win all around. Xanthian. -- Kent, the man from xanth. Kent Paul Dolan, CSC contractor at Fleet Numerical. (408) 656-4363. (Navy Unix email: ) (Navy cc:Mail email: ) (real world email: )