[tex-live] texdoc in luatex

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Mon Jun 25 20:46:35 CEST 2007


Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> writes:

> Frank Küster wrote:
>> Frank Küster <frank at kuesterei.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> The current state is attached, the -l and -h options already work.
>>
>> Attached is version 0.1.  It can be used to list and view files (and it
>> has a '-v|--version' option, but the regex search is not implemented.
>
> Frank, luatex links against libz (of course), so I could easily, and
> with just a minimum amound of extra compiled code, offer an interface
> to that directly from lua. Doinfg so would remove the need to call the
> g(un)zip executable. If you like that, let me know what you believe
> the best interface would be.

LuaZip from the Kepler project appears like a reasonable interface
into zip files
<URL:http://www.keplerproject.org/luazip/manual.html#introduction>.
However, this does not cover gzip files and uses zlib instead of libz.

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