Hi Mike & friends.
Speaking as somebody whose e-mail service always "reformats" my outgoing mail, I agree with your concerns. Mr. Aust has also expressed concerns on this subject and his proposal was to use Squeak's compression feature to compress your files before attaching them to e-mails. In general, I agree with his suggestion because it makes the e-mails smaller and they are free of e-mail artifacts (and because I get leverage Squeak instead of some other product). :-)
Cheers,
---==> Chris
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Norton, Chris wrote:
Hi Mike & friends.
Speaking as somebody whose e-mail service always "reformats" my outgoing mail, I agree with your concerns. Mr. Aust has also expressed concerns on this subject and his proposal was to use Squeak's compression feature to compress your files before attaching them to e-mails. In general, I agree with his suggestion because it makes the e-mails smaller and they are free of e-mail artifacts (and because I get leverage Squeak instead of some other product). :-)
To promote this practice, it might be a good idea to have the FileList recognized .cs.gz extentions and automagically decompress them when viewing or filing in. Similarly, when filing out, there could be an option to store them compressed always.
Cheers, Bijan Parsia.
Bijan writes:
To promote this practice, it might be a good idea to have the FileList recognized .cs.gz extentions and automagically decompress them when viewing or filing in. Similarly, when filing out, there could be an option to store them compressed always.
Agreed - this has bitten me enough to do something about it. I remember a year or so back trying to send something simple to Dan and fighting the various email mangling problems. Maybe I can even talk Paul McDonough into using it :)
Change Set: GZipChangeSets Date: 25 August 2000 Author: Duane Maxwell/exobox
This change set adds the ability to file in/out change sets that are compressed with GZip. The output of compressed change sets is controlled by the preference #changeSetCompressed. The FileList and ChangeSet browsers have been modified to directly understand the compressed change set files, stored with the extension '.csz'.
Submitted by Duane Maxwell/exobox
Duane,
this is a useful submisson. However, I would prefer if you made a couple of changes. Could you add an extra menu item with a compress option, or 95% of the people won't realize it is there I think. (perhaps the preference becomes redundant too then?), and use the standard suffix .cs.gz instead of a new, potentially confusing one? (assuming that unzipping them yields a .gz file)
How about it? Myself I am compiling 95 submissions from this summer for release as updates... Your phone stuff is in the pipeline!
thanks in advance, Henrik
OK, that was for Duane alone. I knew I shouldn't press that shortcut, but try to tell that to my fingers!
Henrik
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