From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: .INF files questions
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 16:24:14 +0300 (GMT)
Message-ID:  <9610161624.aa08046@ailin.inti.edu.ar>

Hi Workers, here SET again:

  As I told in other mail (if the mails came out of order see the mail talking
about memmove) I'm trying to help Robert, I'm the author of the InfView of
RHIDE (the nice browser for info files included in the IDE).
  I'm trying to add support for compressed files and I have some problems:

a) Can be distributed *all* the inf files in UNIX format?, the major part are
in UNIX format because come from UNIX, but some (generated with makeinfo?)
are in DOS format (CR+LF). My browser convert the files when detects that
situation, but is very complex when the files are compressed, because I must
uncompress, convert and then recompress, and I can loose a letter in the
extention of the file (inf compressed is inz but uncompressed is in) and if
some thing goes wrong the convertion can delete the files.
  So if better if all the files are UNIX. That's the same for info.exe and
the files are little smaller in this way, so I don't see any reason to
distribute some files in DOS format.

b) My routines calls to the decompressor using system(), and I saw that
after 10 or 12 calls part of my memory is corrupted. Is my fault? or is some
problem with calls with system to the gzip.exe program? anybody have a similar
problem? that's just a question.

SET


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