Compressed file for Windows port

David Brown gnucash at davidb.org
Fri Mar 16 12:15:52 EDT 2007


Davide Imbeni wrote:
> >From http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows :
>
> Reading/writing compressed files
>
> The current win32 SVN code doesn't read or write compressed (gzip'd)
files.
> On Linux, gnucash forks gzip as a child process and pipes the file through
> it. On windows, there isn't an easy replacement for fork() and pipe(). See
> src/backend/file/io-gncxml-v2.c:1246 ff.

Wouldn't calling 'zlib' be easier, and then more likely to work on
Windows?

Dave



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