On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Philip Webb wrote:
> 000304 Ismael Cordeiro wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Philip Webb wrote:
> >> 000228 Carrasco Benitez Manuel wrote:
> >>> has there been discussion on supporting direct viewing of zip files ?
> >>
> >> i haven't tried it, but you should be able to do this using Most,
> >> which you can get from ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/most ;
> >> set it up as a choice in your Printer screen in lynx.cfg .
> >
> > There's nothing about that feature in the most manpage
> > and when I read a zip archive with most I get this:
> -- hex version snipped --
>
> i was just trying to be helpful to Mr Carrasco, as no-one else had:
> those who need the feature can try out all the suggestions & report back.
Well, I tried your suggestion, confirmed that it doesn't work and reported
back.
> Most has a switch -z advertised as "turn off gunzip-on-the-fly";
> another possibility wb to put gunzip in your Printer screen,
> piping the output to your favorite browser.
Zip and gzip are different things. Zip is an archiver/compressor while gzip
is a compressor. Gunzip and mosts doesn't work with zip files. If you want to
read with lynx documents compressed with gzip (.gz suffix), you don't need to
do anything. If you have gzip on your system lynx will use it to uncompress
the document on-th-fly. It's still better if you have zlib and used it when
compiling lynx.
Ismael
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