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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx/386 and problem with compressed files..
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Klaus Weide |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx/386 and problem with compressed files.. |
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Wed, 14 May 1997 18:14:15 -0500 (CDT) |
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:
> Wayne Buttles <address@hidden> wrote:
> >I am not entirely sure what to do here. When a compressed file file is
> >encountered (gzip, compress...), lynx makes a temp file with two
> >extentions like Lxxxxxxx.txt.gz and then expects the resulting file to be
> >Lxxxxxxx.txt. I am not sure how to modify this for the 386 port which
> >can't handle it. Anyone have any thoughts?
>
> Look at the for-VMS code, which already deals with that. VMS
> does not support multiple dot filenames (as in the devel code archive
> names 8-), and thus substitutes dashes or underscores, and gunzip for
> VMS in turn handles those as intended, to yield Lxxxxxx.txt on
> uncompression.
Yeah, that sounds better than what I just wrote.
There may be problems because of 8-character filename limit, which VMS
doesn't have.
Klaus
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- LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx/386 and problem with compressed files.., Wayne Buttles, 1997/05/14
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx/386 and problem with compressed files.., Foteos Macrides, 1997/05/14
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx/386 and problem with compressed files.., Foteos Macrides, 1997/05/14
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx/386 and problem with compressed files.., John E. Davis, 1997/05/15
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx/386 and problem with compressed files.., Foteos Macrides, 1997/05/15
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx/386 and problem with compressed files.., Foteos Macrides, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx/386 and problem with compressed files.., Foteos Macrides, 1997/05/20