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

[Wayne Buttles]

On Thu, 15 May 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:

>       I've never used gunzip on anything but VMS and Unix, but I
> just looked at it's DOC file, and it says that for MSDOS/WIN/NT the
> default suffix is 'z'.  So, where the for-VMS code is setting 'gz'
> in HTFWriter.c, you want to make it 'z', and where it's making the
> suffix .txt- or .html- or .bin- you want to make it .tx or .ht or
> .bi, so it ends up 8.2z. 

Yes I have been there, I just haven't figured out why doing that sets lynx
to copy the file in text mode rather than binary mode.  This cuts off the
file at the first eof(?) char when it should wait till the actual end.

VENDORDO.GZ  = 4890 bytes
L75480TM.TXZ =  714 bytes

Not quite the same size.  I can simulate that by doing:

type VENDORDO.GZ >L75480TM.TXZ

Which also works in non-binary mode.  I just need to find the trigger
point in lynx to force using rb/wb to copy that file to temp space.

Wayne

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