Re: compression (was Re: [Lynx-dev] Problem with mobil.t-online.de)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Thomas Dickey dixit:
>
> > "compress" is supposed to be handled by an external program, while
> > the others all have built-in support.  I didn't have "compress"
> > installed on my home machine, but see that there is a "ncompress"
> > package
>
> Ow ;)
>
> Want me to hack it up for lynx? I'll use
> http://mirbsd.mirsolutions.de/cvs.cgi/src/usr.bin/compress/zopen.c?rev=HEAD
> as a basis (I did that for XFree86 as well, while x.org removed
> support for compressed fonts from their Xlib), which is GPL compatible.

iirc, libz is supposed to be able to do uncompress (perhaps with some 
option - I don't recall that).  It would be useful to have that, though
the bug that I'm interested in at the moment is whether the external
uncompress is working properly.

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