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Re: lynx-dev bzip2 compressed files (was Re: NLS tweaks for 282dev4)
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Leonid Pauzner |
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Re: lynx-dev bzip2 compressed files (was Re: NLS tweaks for 282dev4) |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 23:00:14 +0300 (MSK) |
>> Anyway, bzip2 has made tremendous strides since this discussion began
>> over a year ago. With the speed of decompression bzip2 has achieved, I
>> strongly urge that Lynx be modified to properly handle bzip2-compressed
>> files. The appended patch, granted not done in decent programming style,
>> will allow that support for http-served files. (Thanks to Bela!)
> I think that code should be #ifdef'd, since we cannot expect everyone
> to have bzip2. (We seem to be making that assumption about gzip.)
Autoconf find the bzip2_path and it is not a big problem to check
the existanse of bzip2_path/bzip2, isn't it?
(and DOS/WIN looks executables in several directories from the $PATH,
this is another story)