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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx/386 and problem with compressed files..


From: Foteos Macrides
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx/386 and problem with compressed files..
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 19:01:11 -0500 (EST)

Wayne Buttles <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Tue, 6 May 1997, Hynek Med wrote:
>
>> Try to get a patch from the Patch-O-matic, and try to get it compressed
>> (output compression yes).
>> 
>> Though gzip is available, it says "Alert! cannot open temporary
>> file". Trace shows queer output - found exact match www/compressed and
>> then the Alert.
>
>I am not entirely sure what to do here.  When a compressed file file is
>encountered (gzip, compress...), lynx makes a temp file with two
>extentions like Lxxxxxxx.txt.gz and then expects the resulting file to be
>Lxxxxxxx.txt.  I am not sure how to modify this for the 386 port which
>can't handle it.  Anyone have any thoughts?

        Look at the for-VMS code, which already deals with that.  VMS
does not support multiple dot filenames (as in the devel code archive
names 8-), and thus substitutes dashes or underscores, and gunzip for
VMS in turn handles those as intended, to yield Lxxxxxx.txt on
uncompression.

                                Fote

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