Re: Bug#2343: libgz obsolete and confusing name for libz

[kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Helmut Geyer)  wrote on 17.02.96 in <[🔎] 9602171158.AA13362@polyhymnia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>:

> LD_PRELOAD mechanism). Furthermore, this library is a non-standard one
> while lib[g]z seems to become a highly standard one once PNG replaces
> GIF as standard format for WWW high-quality pictures (PNG is a W3C
> Working Draft right now).

Note also that the "deflate" compression algorithm, and the usages thereof  
by gzip and zlib, are currently in the process of being made into three  
RFCs. See your favourite Internet Draft server, the *-deutsch-* files.

MfG Kai