On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Roth, Kevin P. wrote:

> What is the easiest way to block this compression? Ideally some kind of
> compile-time flag (command-line or otherwise)

In the src/Makefile, there's a variable set named MKHELPOPT that contains -c
if compression is enabled and a blank if disabled (this option is passed to
the src/mkhelp.pl perl script).

You can thus enforce an uncompressed help text by running make like this:

  make MKHELPOPT=""

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