Re: [Freeciv-Dev] xpm, gif, png & map view!

[Matt Busigin <jediknight@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Nicolas Brunel wrote:

#> XPM also is the UNIX/X standard.  There are many ways of compressing them.
#
#We can gzip the xpm files and gunzip them when loading xpm files as
#nethack is doing for the save files.

Which is the easiest way.  Or we could code our own simple compression
algorithms.  Or we could use Zlib.  IMHO, compressing XPMs using *library*
GNU zip/zlib calls would be The Right Thing To Do (tm).

                        cheers,
                                matt.


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