Re: lynx-dev about lynx.cfg

[David Combs]

> From address@hidden Thu May 28 00:01:32 1998
> Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 23:56:31 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Doug Kaufman <address@hidden>
> 
> On Wed, 27 May 1998, David Combs wrote:
> 
> > I did the strings into a file, put that into VI, looked
> > and searched, etc, found only one line with word "lynx"
> > in it; here are first 40 lines, rest seeming to be same
> > kind of non-english stuff as the trailing lines of
> > what I include here:
> > 
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > skip=18
> > if /usr/ucb/tail +$skip $0 | "/usr/local/bin"/gzip -cd > /tmp/gztmp$$; then
> >   /bin/chmod 700 /tmp/gztmp$$
> 
> Your lynx program was compressed with gzexe. To examine the lynx.cfg
> string in the file, you need to decompress it first. Copy the file into
> your own directory and do "gzexe -d  lynx". This will uncompress the
> file. Then 'strings lynx|grep "lynx\.cfg"|less' should give you what you
> need.
>                              Doug
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> Doug Kaufman
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> 

That's so cool -- that here on netcom I can gzip the few
programs I need to run that I have to have in my own
max of 5.5mb "free" disk, with out paying $$$ extra.

I looked at the man file for gzexe, found nothing about
how to set up such a combined sh-script---gz'd binary.

Do you have anything on it, or can you maybe point me
at it?  

(I reply to the list because others might have restricted
diskspace on their isp too, so maybe others could use this
info too.)