On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 21:42:44 -0400, Eric Renfro wrote:

 ER> One other issue I found about hpt was when trying to use hpt with
internal zlib
 ER> support for zip, it claimed not to be compiled with zlib support, which is
 ER> likely obviously true.

Have you tried to build it yet?  Set USE_HPTZIP=1 in huskymak.cfg,
build hptzip, then rebuild hpt and htick.  I use this use and have no
problems.

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