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

[cyb97 <cyb97@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 14.05.2000 07:44:08, the guilty party (ie. Big Gaute), stuck his/her head 
out with the following anouncement:
>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.
>
Why not make it an option to use compression when saving games, so that win32 
systems w/o the gnu-for-win32 installed can use the old non-compressed system?

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