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From: Mgr. Lubos Vrbka (lubos.vrbka_at_uochb.cas.cz)
Date: Tue Apr 19 2005 - 01:04:57 CDT

> i don't think it is worth the hassle. also i have not checked, how
> the external reference to zlib would be resolved. not to speak of
> how you'd port it to a platform like windows.
> the LD_PRELOAD hack with zlibc works very well on most platforms
> where you could add zlib support easily. it is transparent and you
> do not even need to modify VMD. just that it _can_ be done,
> does not mean, that is _has_ to be done.
you're right, it works very well on most platforms (definitely
unix/linux, probably mac)... porting to windows would be probably easy,
there exists free zlib windows port (.dll)
http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/

regards,
lubos 

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Mgr. Lubos Vrbka
Center for Biomolecules and Complex Molecular Systems
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic
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