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 n 11 Aug 1997, SL Baur wrote:

> Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:
> > Then shouldn't we use it fure ungzipping buffers too?
> 
> It might be a good idea at some point.  It would be Yet Another
> Library dependency.  Right now you don't have to have this library to
> link.  Does this library get installed when you install gzip?  I can't 
> recall and I don't have the gzip source handy.

I just checked the binary gzip distribution for Solaris. Libz is not in the
tar file, it is not searched for by the configure script, nor it is required
by the executable:

ldd gzip:

        libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1        
        libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1

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