Nick Humphries wrote: >PCs don't have gzip by default.
PCs? You mean *WINDOWS*, don't you? If you buy a Lintel box, you *do* get gzip, along with zip. Windows doesn't come with any real compression tools -- You can't even use *cabs* properly. How MS can consider a web browser an "essential" part of the OS and fail to write a zip program... <roflol at MS> >What's wrong with writing a custom compression >routine which is portable between the various platforms? What??? IIRC, gzip has been ported to most OSs, and gz is even supported by WinZip. Zlib also works on a wide range of platforms, which makes gz support *really* easy to write. I get the feeling that gzip-style compression *might* just be the most commonly used method, somehow. It's also supposed to be really easy to use. Ever used pk or winzip? Hmm... -- Stuart Brady
