Hi,
>>"Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephane> On Saturday 17 October 1998, at 21 h 56, the keyboard of Rob
Browning
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Unless you're logged in as root, you're not going to be able to build
>> these example files inside /usr/doc (n
On Saturday 17 October 1998, at 21 h 56, the keyboard of Rob Browning
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unless you're logged in as root, you're not going to be able to build
> these example files inside /usr/doc (nor should you) anyway, so you'll
> have to copy them somewhere else. You can run gunzip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter S Galbraith) wrote on 16.10.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> - If you are using some docs often on a 486, you end up uncompressing them
>because it's too slow otherwise.
I'm using a 486. Uncompressing text is "too slow"? Ridiculous.
On the other hand, I currently have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 16.10.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I disagree quite strongly. If the intent was to have
> uncompressed originals on the system we would have shipped them as
> such.
Indeed - the .debs would be smaller that way.
MfG Kai
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hmm. We have zless to less gz'd files. Magicfilter will print them, as
> will a2ps (maybe some others will too, haven't tried it.) Netscape reads
> them, so does lynx. And of course man and info work with them. zgrep
> will grep them. vim reads them just
Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't agree here. Some programs have included example files
> that are either c files that (unless there's a trick I don't know
> about) will not compile compressed, or example data files that cannot
> be read by the program in question compressed. T
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> M-x toggle-auto-compression
> M-x auto-compression-mode
Just put
(auto-compression-mode 1)
in your .emacs.
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Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
Quoting Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> This should be fixed. The default lessopen script does indeed
> set it up so.
?. Less doesn't decode gz's on any of my systems.
Mike Stone
Hi,
>>"Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> - It would not be reading your mind. That's ridiculous.
It would be exceeding its authority.
Peter> - It would be doing you a favour.
Oh no. If I wanted that file upgraded, I would have left it in
plcae.
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> There is no reason ever to uncompress a file (lesspipe and
> lessopen make it unnecessary).
Good thing if lesspipe is now correctly setup (Wasn't in bo, and I'm not
sure I don't have a older hacked version of /etc/csh.login on my system).
You still get garbage i
Hi,
>>"Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> So, at least Craig Sanders and Santiago Vila are so engrained
Peter> into Debian that they now think the original usable file is
Peter> the gzip'ed one, not the author's original text. I disagree.
Count me in with C
I wrote:
> It occurs to me that upgrading a package should delete old versions
> of user-uncompressed doc and info files.
Santiago Vila wrote:
> The package system is not supposed to read your mind.
>
> You should never uncompress files "in place" because then dpkg will be
> unable to remove t
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 05:31:10PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> Hmm. We have zless to less gz'd files.
zless nothing, a simple lesspipe.sh works great, for bigger stuff a not
so simple lesspipe.sh (Can give a real complete one if you want, its
what I use) works GREAT...
Gives file listings for
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 08:51:45AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> emacs
M-x toggle-auto-compression
M-x auto-compression-mode
depending on your Emacs. Somebody will probably know how to put this
into a .emacs. My Elisp is quite ... rusty.
Antti-Juhani
--
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thursday 15 October 1998, at 17 h 31, the keyboard of Michael Stone
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm. We have zless to less gz'd files. Magicfilter will print them, as
> will a2ps (maybe some others will too, haven't tried it.) Netscape reads
...
> will grep them. vim reads them just fine. I'm
Quoting Stephane Bortzmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Yes, the current Debian system is really inconvenient. Each time you
> want to do something useful with a documentation (print it, grep it,
> glimpse it, vi it, remember that not every program is able to read
> compressed files and "zcat file.gz |
On Friday 2 October 1998, at 11 h 55, the keyboard of Peter S Galbraith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To me, a uncompressed version of a file is still the same file.
> To me, copying an uncompressed info file to /usr/local/info *is* leaving
> crud all over the disk.
Yes, the current Debian system
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