Re: Some suggestions (zlib info, and a correction)

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On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Werner Koch wrote:

> Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Why not just document the usage of zlib - A new compression algorithm would
> > break existing implementations and compatibility is one of the objectives
> > for the spec.
> 
> PGP used an early version of zlib which was limited to a 13 bit
> compression window, the RFC documented zlib does not have this
> limitation.  It's okay to support the old version, but why should
> I not use a newer (and documented) one as an option?

The other zlibism is that I still need to pass the value -15 in
inflateInit2 instead of using InflateInit since the latter will place a
gzip(?) style header in front and crc at the end.  This is undocumented
(except maybe in inflate.c)

It would be reasonable to use a new algorithm ID to add a direct zlib
feature. 

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