From: Allan Skillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Hi All, > >The easiest way to provide gnuzip compression without the need for an >external compressing agent is to link the program against the zlib >library, and use its file i/o api. This will automatically generate >gzipped disk images on the fly. Fair enough. Reminds me of when I was using a zip library a few years ago (Greenleaf?). It's a lot neater to have compression/uncompression withing the code itself rather than doing a system() or whatever to an external program. Nick Humphries
