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

[Matt Busigin <jediknight@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9 Mar 1999, Markus Linnala wrote:

#Compression format is exactly same with gzip and with libz. You
#can compress file with gzip and read it with libz. You can
#compress file with libz and uncompress it with gzip and then
#read it with normal means. You can read normal files with libz
#as it senses that file is not compressed. There should not be
#any major problem with libz. At least not compatibility and
#portability issues between systems with or without libz and also
#between manually gzipped save-games.

Does libz == zlib?  Anyway, here goes:

bash-2.01$ dpkg --status zlib1g-dev
Package: zlib1g-dev
Status: install ok unpacked
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 122
Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Source: zlib
Version: 1:1.1.1-0.1
Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.1.1-0.1), libc6-dev
Conflicts: zlib1-dev
Description: compression library - development
 zlib is a library implementing the deflate compression method found
 in gzip and pkzip.  This package includes the development support
 files.

Are you sure about that, Lalo?  Maybe you were thinking of something else?

#You might want to get in touch with libz and read its
#documentation.
#
#-- 
#//Markus
#

                        cheers,
                                matt

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