[tex-live] volunteer to implement lcab compression?

Thomas Esser te at dbs.uni-hannover.de
Tue Jun 8 19:33:55 CEST 2004


> We (Sebastian and I) have not found any other programs to write .cab
> files under Unix (many programs support reading .cab's).  There is a

Is the file format good enough to preserve file attributes such as UNIX
permissions? Is the file format smart enough to handle text files properly
(i.e. convert line ends on extraction)?

Should I better not ask this? :-)

Thomas



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