Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 11:09:44 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael C. Newell" <mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov> To: Joe O <mephisto@nosferatu.cas.usf.edu> Cc: "Daniel Stephens (CSC)" <stephens@mabuse.cas.usf.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Kernel... Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.941224110040.3930J-100000@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.3.91.941224104430.17521A-100000@nosferatu.cas.usf.edu>
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On Sat, 24 Dec 1994, Joe O wrote:
> This bit of wisdom appeared maybe 2 months ago. I don't remeber who
> asked or who answered.
> Do a "make install" in your /usr/src/sys/compile/mabuse directory. The
> makefile there will use /usr/bin/install with the necessary flags.
I remember seeing it too; I just found the other way first... :{)
> Perhaps on a future release of the FreeBSD cdrom a compressed and/or
> abridged copy of the mail archive and maybe a simple database program to
> access it could be included. Any thoughts?
I think that's a fine idea, but I see some complications:
1. Who's going to edit the archive? I've been saving stuff for a few
months now and have over 46Kb so far of just FreeBSD stuff - that's
a lot of data [but perhaps not a lot for a CDROM?]
2. What search program would be used? Most of the ones I've seen [and
since this isn't my field I'm not really up] require massive index
files and don't work on compressed files. Also, whatever was chosen
would have to have a really nice front-end.
3. Who's going to maintain it... :{)
On the issue of [1], I'm sure we could tremendously decrease the size of
the archive by stripping out headers; I've done this in the past and
decreased the size of the mailfiles by (usually) over 30%, since most
messages are a few lines of real message and a PILE o' lines of SMTP
headers. I think it would also be useful for a preprocessor to gather
the "threads" together and present them as a clump. Then, with a
reasonable text search program [anyone know of one] this might be doable...
Has anyone actually done this? I've used FreeWAIS on my mail and it
works OK but to be honest the XWAIS program, uh, sucks. Other experiences?
BTW, I'm NOT volunteering!! :{)
Thanks,
Mike
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