[Rd] [rfc] Package to access the internal zlib library.

[jason at acm.org]

And Brian Ripley writes:
> The *only* safe thing to do is to include your own copy of
> zlib, and compile it into the package (optionally linking
> instead to the system copy if it exists).

Fair enough, and likely necessary on AIX with XCOFF's
restrictions.  The Rcompression package mentioned by Duncan Lang
has most of what I need, so I should help with Rcompression
instead.

> Please note that Uwe Ligges provides a Windows testing service:
> see 'Writing R Extensions' and the R-admin manual.  You don't
> need to ask others to do this for you.

Great!  Thank you and Uwe Ligges!  I completely missed the
"Services" section.

Jason