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Subject: Re: [patch] prim/help.el: allow .el.gz files if `jka-compr' present
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From: Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
Date: 11 Aug 1997 09:36:09 +0200
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SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> O.K.  Hopefully you will not tie support of gzipped files to usage of
> jka-compr.  Usage of gzip is Good, usage of jka-compr is Bad.

Whis reminds me. Isn't the libz you link in for png support also for
gzip compression/decompression? Then shouldn't we use it fure
ungzipping buffers too? I mean calling gzip is 'the unix way' but if
you already have libs in memory, why not use them?

Jan

