On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 11:55:28PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > My problem: I could never decompress any kernel source file I > downloaded without it aborting with errors. > > My solution: I uninstalled the bzip2 package and then reinstalled it. > That fixed the problem, so I'm on to xconfig, which seems to work now... Hi John,
After reading your previous mail I was going to suggest that maybe you have a corrupted bzip2, or corrupted RAM. I'm glad it's not the RAM! To answer your question about the gzipped files in /usr/share/doc directories, I assume they are gzipped to save disk space. There are some file managers, like mc, that let you look at gzipped text files without gunzipping them first. Tom
