> Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 16:43:40 -0400 (EDT)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Sankey)
[...]
> I agree, on both counts. I'm planning on PS for Scarlatti. But,
> until I find a free .gz program for Windows & Macs that works
> reliably, I'll use PKzip-compatible, which is supported on Linux
> as well as Windows & Macs.
If PKzip-compatible means zip/unzip of the INFO-ZIP group then
(their?) gzip is as free as zip/unzip and available for most
basic systems.
<Zitat>
gzip is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License, a copy of which is
provided under the name COPYING. The latest version of gzip are always
available by ftp in prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu, [...]
</Zitat>
For my distributions of PS-files I use gzip-compressed PS-files which in
case of dvips-output are of similar size as compressed PDF-files. These
.ps.gz files can directly be viewed by gsview/ghostscript. Nevertheless
my sheet-music page offers the ps-files which are generated by our
ftp-server on the fly if foo.ps is requested and only foo.ps.gz exists.
To save bandwidth it would be better to transport the files as .ps.gz, too.
So I'm thinking about extending my sheet music page such a way, that for
each named link to a PS-file another link by an icon will be added which
points at the compressed .ps.gz file.
-- Werner
PS: Somewhere a small, nice, free icon for that purpose? (I'm a bad icon
designer :-)
