[fptex] new binaries

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 06:08 PM 2/27/2002 +0100, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
> >* Jacques MAROT <jacques.marot@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> >
> > > When I use this new metapost with input graph, it does not work.
> >
> >You are right.
> >
> >I'll upload a new set of binaries in the evening, fixing various
> >problems.
> >
> >Also : what do people think about kpathsea transparently being
> >able to open .gz files ?
>
> could be an interesting option (accessing zip archives would also be
> interesting, but then we need something blabla.zip//filename or so; is
> opening zip files part of the zip libaries?)

Not sure what you mean by `the zip libaries', but it is part of the
contributed minizip section of zlib.  Unfortunately that is not
too hot on cross-platform compatibility, but it started life on Windows
(or DOS).  One could also use the unzip32.dll from Info-Zip.

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