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Subject:	Re: GNU Emacs 22.3 and Vista
Date:	Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:52:09 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi,

On Apr 10, 6:44=A0am, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_h DOT  DOT  DOT  AT nohavenot DOT cmm> wrote:
> "Rugxulo" <rugx DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com> wrote in message
>
> news:f5509665-5037-4f7b-b71b-8868ddace192 AT l1g2000yqk DOT googlegroups DOT com...
>
> > This was all theoretical anyways. No loss since I didn't get my hopes
> > up unrealistically. But there are a few options,
>
> Sorry, wasn't following too well... =A0What options? Options for not usin=
g
> gzip?...

180 MB is (IMHO) too much unpacked, and most of that is the docs
(and .el + .elc). So using GZip would save some space. But Eli says,
"No GZip is included", whereas I say, "But here's some smaller
alternatives." Actually, the whole "auto-compression" idea disappears
if not using GZip since it can't recompress, but who cares ... just
unpack to a temporary dir and delete when finished. That's still
better than having it all unpacked wasting space.

> Well, PKZIP and PKUNZIP or similar functionality (WinZip, InfoZip, 7-ZIP,
> .zip folders as part of Windows, etc.) is usually available or easily
> obtainable for DOS and Windows.

This was all just wishful thinking. I guess I didn't think it through
completely. I wasn't even sure whether my idea was something for GNU
Emacs or just the DJGPP port in particular (which is my primary
interest, of course). And I'm not sure Eli is interested in a DOS-
specific mess.

> > Fix DJTAR to unpack .gz instead of .tar.gz
>
> First, why must this file be .gz instead of .tar.gz? =A0Can't the .gz fil=
e be
> uncompressed and then recompressed as .tar.gz?... =A0It should take just =
a few
> seconds.

Yes, if all we wanted to do was unpack, we could use .tar.gz. But auto-
compression, I'm not sure, but it probably repacks, and neither tar
nor GZip are included (and would have to have sources since GPL).

(snipped other links)

Yeah, I'm not sure where I was going with this idea. Sure, somebody
with eLisp experience could hack the inflate.cl to maybe make Emacs
support it out of the box, but I'm not that somebody.  :-)
But I still think, ignoring auto-compression, if you just wanted to
save unpacked space, you could use one of the untar / untgz / tgunzip
etc. alternatives (since they're small, free license, w/ srcs). Or
maybe just bundle the "docs + changelogs + etc" separately anyways.

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