Jon A. Cruz wrote:
> Ralf Muschall wrote:

> BTW, tar on Windows platforms (especially winzip) can cause big headaches
> with EOL conversions.

Agreed, but this only requires POVray to understand the EOLs of the
other system. Hackers who want to edit the manually extracted files
will probably be able to say something like :%s/^V^M// or M-% C-q C-m
in their editor.

Thats also why I think it is not necessary to care much about the
existence of tar.exe, gzip.exe etc. on DOSen or MACs - non-hackers
simply won't need it (since povray does all the work), hackers will
know how to obtain it, and the GPL absolutely excludes any kind of
legal hassles that might occur with other archivers (except .zip and
.jar, as I learned from your response).

Ralf

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