Re: lynx-dev [PATCH] minor doc update

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 05:03:11PM -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> In a recent note, Thomas Dickey said:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:25:20 -0400
> > 
> > but there's nothing that I see that forces archiving as text.
> > 
> To my understanding, archiving as text means setting a flag in
> the archive directory.  Zip makes this decision on a statictical
> analysis of (the beginning of) each file.  One of the .po files
> contains enough non-Roman characters that this flag says "binary"
> rather than "text".  -aa works fine on OS/390.  On ASCII UNIX
> it doesn't matter.  The file(s), BTW, are:
> 
>     address@hidden:185$ unzip -a ../lynx-cur.zip | more
>         [ ... ]
>     inflating: lynx2-8-4/docs/README.TRST  [text]
>     inflating: lynx2-8-4/docs/README.jp  [binary]
>     inflating: lynx2-8-4/fixed512.com  [text]
>         [ ... ]
>     inflating: lynx2-8-4/po/readme     [text]
>     inflating: lynx2-8-4/po/ru.po      [binary]

I don't see that the ru.po is worse than the next file - several characters
in the 0xa0-0xff range.  Perhaps zip uses some threshold (or are you using
the large unbundled ru.po - I'm only reading the 1293-character stub)?

>     inflating: lynx2-8-4/po/pt_BR.po   [text]

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