[fptex] new binaries

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 10:37 AM 2/28/2002 +0000, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
> >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
>
> the ability of kpse to consult zip files, which means that for instance we
> can package all those font files in comfortable zips

Yes, but why *the* zip libraries?  You have deleted the crucial part of my
message, too, which explained how this might be done.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595