On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:09, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > clearly zcat is doing something funky because gzip files have an 8byte > footer that would foul up any code that tried to read that file if it > were mbox.
It's not doing anything funky. The gzip format (which is different than the compress format) is a concatenation of 'members,' each of which is a compressed chunk. It knows when to stop by when it hits EOF. > it's not trivial to do what zcat does. That's why the powers that be gave us zlib :-). > besides, note "archive". yes, compressing archive folders was never > the issue, the issue was compressing all folders. My bad, I missed the context there. Ray _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
