Re: lynx-dev Re: [2.8.1dev22] patch0.2: Internal HTML pages; rewrite

[Webmaster Jim]

On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 10:45:20PM +0100, Sinan Kaan Yerli wrote:
> (26/08/1998 17:01) Webmaster Jim:
> 
> >One can't assume gzip is actually on the target system, nor compress,
> >either, for that matter (assuming I understand your question).
> 
> Well of course.
> 
> Then all the configuration has to be done by 'configure' which I can not
> play with it (I mean autoconfig). If everybody agrees I will assume the
> following variables will be set when 'makefile' is created:
> 
> COMPRESS_PROG
> COMPRESS_EXT
> 
> in such a way that --enable-compress-help will set both of them and they
> will be empty otherwise.

Also plan for recovery in the case of a Lynx binary being moved to a
system where gzip does not exist, or is in a different location.

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