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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Dan Martens wrote:
> How about a self-extracting executable?

Yes, that would be best. Maybe the nullsoft installer is able to build
a self-extracting executable based on bzip2 (cf. previous mail by Andreas).

<Joris>

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David MENTRE" <address@hidden>
> To: "Joris van der Hoeven" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Dan Martens" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Windows Version
>
>
> > Hello Joris,
> >
> > Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > We should priviledge a free program with a maximal compression rate for
> > > people with a slow internet connection. How does RAR compare to bzip2?
> >
> > I think you should also take into account habits of Windows users,
> > i.e. programs that they have easily on there machine. In other words, is
> > WinZip able to uncompress bzip2? I would prefer .zip format for Windows,
> > except if no free program is able to compress it.