I wrote: > The mh-book package is mostly HTML files which I am compressing. > The technical problem is that they have extension .htm and that > neither lynx or netscape can find the links if they are > compressed in .htm.gz files! So the book doesn't work if it's > compressed! > > I see no other solution than to rename all .htm files to .html > before compressing them, and to write a (Perl) script to replace > all links in the HTML files such that they end with .html.
I wrote the script only to then realize that netscape and lynx _cannot_ substitute compressed "file:/" URLs, but only "http://"; URLs (it's most probably the apache server doing it for them transparently anyway). Here are the options: 1- Don't compress any of the mh-book package and it will be 5.6 MB in size instead of 3.5 MB or so. 2- Put the compressed files accessible to the apache server. (No standard place for this, right?) 3- Modify all HREF tags in all HTML files to point to <file>.html.gz instead of <file>.html I'm thinking Option 3, only beacuse that would save 2 MB in the package. Opinions? Peter
