On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:31:23AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: [...] > still doesn't explain the zlib thing, although maybe it's linked > statically because any compression scheme, in its heart of hearts is > number cruncher.
Gzip predates zlib, and as such does not use zlib. They authors of Gzip decided that the gzip algorith is generally useful, and so ripped out a bit of code from gzip to make zlib, which they released under a less-restrictive license. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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