On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Philip Webb wrote:
> 001024 Klaus Weide wrote:
>
> welcome back! your intimidating presence is always missed (smile)!
Heh, I never noticed that I intimidated you :)
Thwack! Back into your corner, Philip!
> >> "Michael Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped]
> >>> Error message: Alert! Error uncompressing temporary file!
> >>> I was trying to read the SCO help files which are in compress format.
> > That's a pretty old version of lynx.
>
> yes, you should get the latest version from lynx.isc.org/current .
> you might also check the Archive at www.flora.org/lynx-dev .
> was it not the case at one time that Lynx didn't uncompress automatically?
> wasn't it added, possibly later than 2-8 ?
No, it always did uncompress .gz and .Z as long as I have been involved.
Certainly since long before 2-8.
There were some changes around 2.7.1 ..->.. 2-8 regarding *the way*
uncompressing was done, at least for .gz - namely by using zlib
directly rather than invoking "gzip" internally. (But even that
applies only to some cases - external "gzip" is still needed
in other cases.)
> certainly, there was a vigorous discussion here a couple of years ago.
But about what, exactly?
Klaus
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