From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Suggestion 7 Feb 1998 20:39:06 -0800 Message-ID: <19980208145918.62616.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <199802070422 DOT VAA11105 AT jarvi DOT ezlink DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Trent Jarvi Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On 06-Feb-1998, Trent Jarvi wrote: > > As long as your going through all this work to make win32 usable why not add > something to gcc thats good for everyone especially win32. Add the ability > for gcc to search .tgz's for include files simular to java searching zips > for classes. Unlike `.zip' files, `.tgz' files are not a suitable format for this. Zip files allow you to get a list of the files in the archive without decompressing it, but gzipped tar files do not (compare the efficiency of `tar -ztf foo.tgz' vs `unzip -l foo.zip' for a large archive). -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh AT 128 DOT 250 DOT 37 DOT 3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".