Sat, 28 May 1994 00:37:52 +0200
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The first thing you should do is move all your notebooks to another disk.
This way you don't have to worry about the 191 filling up and forcing
LISTSERV to shut down.
All the suggestions you made can be implemented relatively easily with
locally written EXECs. You can for instance call an EXEC once a week or
once a month that archives old notebook files to tape, or compresses
them, or whatever. It is not practical to write a standard compression
and archiving facility because the methods used vary so widely from one
system to another, especially if you want to implement asynchronous
archival. A generic facility could go well into the 1000 lines with
numerous exits, while a program written just to solve your particular
needs could fit in just some 50-100 lines of straightforward code. If VM
had standard tools for compression and archiving, it would be another
matter.
Eric
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