Re: Gzip 1.6 v. Tru64 and VMS

[Steven M. Schweda]

>    Life is tough when you don't have a complete GNU environment
> assembled.  I'll see if I can get a "less" into place, and try it again,
> but don't let me stop you from adding a check for "less" availability.

   Yup, after installing "less", this problem vanished.  Thanks for the
advice.


>    On VMS, the same set of changes suggested for 1.5 seems to work as
> well for 1.6.  If it would do more good than it did last year, then I
> could regenerate a set of "diff -u" differences for these changes in
> 1.6.

   In case the info has been lost, the old VMS-related patches (some
parts of which are now redundant) should be available here:

      http://antinode.info/ftp/gzip/gzip-1_5a_vms/gzip-1_5.du

Plus one newer one (to deal with RECORD_IO):

      http://antinode.info/ftp/gzip/gzip-1_5b_vms/tailor.h_du

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