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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 22:33:41 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Beta of xdelta 1.1.1 port uploaded
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Which zlib and glib versions did you use to build xdelta?

glib 1.2.6
zlib 1.1.2

> > It seems to work patching emacs 21.0.91 source (emacs-21.0.91.tar.gz)
> > to various versions, although byte 10 of the patched file differs from
> > the one I get using xdelta under Linux. After decompression with gzip,
> > the DJGPP xdelta and Linux xdelta versions of the tar file compare the
> > same, which is strange.
> 
> It's not strange.  See the description of the gzip file format in the
> file algorithm.doc (in the gzip distribution): byte 10 is the code of
> the OS on which the compression was done.  The original Emacs pretest
> was tarred on something Unixy, whereas you patched it on Windows.

Phew! That's a relief! I don't have gzip installed right now (got by with
WinZip so far), but thanks for the pointer.

Well, if no-one encounters any problems, I'll upload it in a week or two.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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