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From: Nick Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no>
Sent: 1. èervence 1999 17:23
Subject: Re: New: SimCoupe 0.783a
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no>
> Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 3:45 PM
> Subject: Re: New: SimCoupe 0.783a
>
>
> >Nick Humphries wrote:
> >
> >>PCs don't have gzip by default.
> >
> >PCs? You mean *WINDOWS*, don't you?
>
> Yes, which is a pretty important piece of information if you're developing
for
> Windows...
>
> <snipped OTT anti-MSoft ranting>
>
> And, as a Windows user, I'd like to say that when downloading software,
most of
> it has been in pkzip/winzip files (*.zip) rather than gzip files (*.gz).
Not as
> it is on Linux, I know, but another pretty important piece of information
when
> you're developing for Windows.
>
> Anyway, all this is moot since, as Allan pointed out, using the zlib
library
> eliminates the need for the user to somehow find a copy of gzip. So my
solution
> was a good one after all...
Partially, since user usually wants to pack all his existing uncopressed
files.
This must be done using GZIP.
Again, I preffer ZIP's possibility of packing multiple files.
>
> Nick
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