Hello Karin & others on TBUDL following this thread,
Monday, January 08, 2001, you stated regarding :
KS> On 09-01-2001 at 03:07, Douglas Hinds kindly wrote:
>> I don't compress because compression can cause data loss
>> ...
KS> Only with bad mail programs. Do compress. Especially your
KS> inbox must have an enourmous size by now.
I am going compress all, but hope to determine what purging does, if
compress is actually purge deleted messages.
>> and the algorithms are proprietary, so that something
>> saved using one tape drive (for instance), can't be
>> recovered using the same tape on another maker's drive
>> unless it's NOT compressed.
KS> Not true. Compression within TB has nothing to do with the
KS> algorithms used for compression when using a back-up
KS> program.
That is because Compression within TB has nothing to do with
compression.
>> And as I understood it, compression occurs when closing
>> TB! (which I rarely do),
KS> That depends on your settings. You can define for each and
KS> every folder whether it should compress on exit - and for
KS> folders that are being used for archive purposes, setting
KS> them thusly is rather useless.
>> only to expand again on reopening it.
KS> Nope. You must have misunderstood the idea behind
KS> compression.
You are referring to Moldavian compression. I am referring to
compression compression (i.e Doublespace or similar bogeymen).
KS> TB doesn't 're-inflate' your mailboxes to a
KS> readable format upon re-opening.
That doesn't happen w/ Moldavian compression.
>> Language means no more than the way you use it (although
>> that sounds like something out of Alice in Wonderland).
KS> Alice had this nice habit of asking ;-)
For the time? (in support of the rabbit, who was running late).
Douglas
Best regards,
Douglas Hinds, Dir. Gral. - CeDeCoR, A.C.
Centro para el Desarrollo Comunitario y Rural,
Asociacion Civil
(Center for Rural and Community Development,
a non-profit organization)
Cordoba, Veracruz; Loma Bonita, Oaxaca;
Cd. Guzman, Jalisco & Reynosa, Tamaulipas
Mail: Apdo. Postal No. 171
Fortin de las Flores, Veracruz
94471 Mexico
Tel: + 522 713 2888 (Direct at present)
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