[Freeciv-Dev] Re: patch: zlib support (PR#366)

[Big Gaute <gs234@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 13 May 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:

>On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 07:52:10PM +0100, Big Gaute wrote:
>> On 13 May 2000, Falk Hueffner wrote:
>> 
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I wonder if it wouldn't be a LOT easier to just be able to specify a
>> >program through that the save games will be piped. No libraries
>> >needed, and could be easily adapted to other packers like bzip2.
>> 
>> Well, it works for nethack.  Quite well, too.
>
>Would it work on MS Windows too?

Hm.  I'm fairly certain it's possible, but then again gzip is hardly
standard fare on such systems.

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