Ricsi wrote:
>Why not use automatic .gz compression of eg apache and Netscape ??
>As Bernie has proposed.
>This is long known and used.
>
>Simply replace proprietary pkzip with free GPLed GnuZIP
>and call xy.ZBM xy.bmp.gz
That is not how it's done (but one could do as you suggest). The server
does this automatic and sends the compressed file. However we (I've
implemented a small server in school) couldn't get it to work on anything
but HTML files (I dunno but Netscape wouldn't decompress the images, it
worked if you viewed the images however).
>I had to download some scientific papers of a distributed project.
>It cam as dist00.ps.gz and netscape received it, decompressed it
>internally, and started GPLd GhostView to view the postscript files.
>
>Michael ... what do you say ??
>Integrating gzip code into a flat 386 DJGPP version of Arachne ??
This would be the best place yes.
>PS: Maybe I will compare Arachne with IE or Netscape ...
>I have to compare 2 browser for a *VERY* silly (other) university project.
Let us know what you find out.
//Bernie
