Re: lynx-dev bzip2 Ilya's patch ?

[Frédéric L . W . Meunier]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Philip Webb wrote:

> 030928 Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> > it's probably a good thing for the Windows builds,
> > where the bzip2 executable isn't available
>
> surely, that's incorrect: have a look at www.bzip2.org/ .
> earlier this year, i introduced one of the baron's slaves to
> Bzip2, when i had to send a large file compressed to get
> thro' his e-mail gate.

Sorry for the confusion. What I tried to mean is that most
Windows users don't have bzip2 installed. Linking against
libbz2 (not as a DLL) would solve it.

It's the same if you don't link with zlib. Most Windows users
don't have gzip installed.

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