Subj : Perl::JAM (was: txt2pkt.pl)
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Johan Billing
Date : Thu Feb 17 2005 10:31 pm

Maurice Kinal -> Johan Billing wrote:

 MK> I haven't looked at any of these yet and it might be a couple of days
 MK> before that happens, but I already know that some conversion is going to
 MK> happen to at least make the archives more Linux friendly.  I am also
 MK> betting the documentation will need to be filtered to rid them of
 MK> DOS-think.

What do you mean by DOS-think?

 MK> The bonus to that is that it reduces file sizes without any
 MK> compression and furthermore if later gzipped even greater savings are
 MK> achieved.  Too bad Fido never considered things like this given that
 MK> ridding DOS-think from messages reduces them by more or less 60% without
 MK> compression.

60% is a lot! Not that matters much with today's harddrives, but still. How do 
you propose to save that much space?

 MK> I'd like to see if something like the above can be achieved with the JAM
 MK> format or if there might have to be a major overhaul to eliminate
 MK> DOS-think from it.  What do you think?  Worth looking into?

Don't know, that depends on what you want to do. JAM is relatively flexible, so 
I suppose that some modifications could be made without breaking 
backwards-compatibility, but a major overhaul might be difficult. The major 
pain with the JAM format as I see it is that timestamps are supposed to be in 
local time, not GMT. I am sure that it made sense when the format was designed, 
but today it is just annoying.

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