> I just looked at the new packages in 1.3.1. I tried to installing > jdk1.1 and find out that all the documentation provided by Sun (API, > demos) are compressed. > > The same happens for other packages too. The dvi files which are part > of teTeX package are compressed too. This makes reading of these > files not easier. > > On the other hand a lot of manpages (where all clients I know support > compressed pages) are stored uncompressed.
I think this should by now be regarded as a bug. > Why is the documentation treated this way? Saving space is a good > reason but IMHO compression is not well suited for html and dvi files. Lynx reads gzipped html without problems. > I would be forced to uncompress all these files to use it and there is > no longer saved space. Do not to forget the undermining of the > package system, the uncompressed files would stay installed while > removing the according packages. If you just want to print the dvi files, you make a copy, uncompress it, print it, and throw it away. Otherwise you can write simple scripts that do `autodecompression' for you. E.g., for xdvi you could use the following script called zxdvi (analogous to zcat, zless). zxdvi: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh tmpname="/tmp/$1 unzipped" gunzip -c $1 > "$tmpname" xdvi "$tmpname" rm "$tmpname" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put this in your personal bin directory (or /local/bin) and you're set. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
