Re: [Xmame] Readding gz support to xmame/xmess

2005-02-02 Thread Lawrence Gold
Hans de Goede wrote: This depends on how complete the zlib shipped with xmame is. Zlib has fopen fseek and fread equivalents which transparantly support gz files, I believe they are called fzopen fzread, etc. It appears to be complete enough to support it. I think I'm close to having gz support

Re: [Xmame] Readding gz support to xmame/xmess

2005-02-02 Thread Hans de Goede
Christopher Stone wrote: I remember a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away xmame used to support .gz compression. Somewhere along the way this got removed, however I think it would be a beneficial feature mainly for the xmess side of things. Many disk images and carts, and so forth are compres

[Xmame] Readding gz support to xmame/xmess

2005-02-02 Thread Christopher Stone
I remember a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away xmame used to support .gz compression. Somewhere along the way this got removed, however I think it would be a beneficial feature mainly for the xmess side of things. Many disk images and carts, and so forth are compressed with gz since they ar