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Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression



Hi there!

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:43:39 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2011-08-15 23:29:17 -0400, James Vega wrote:
>> You mean like lesspipe(1)?  Seems like it might need to be updated to
>> handle *.xz, but other than that looks like it fits the bill.
>
> lesspipe(1) from the less package is a bit primitive. How about using
> Wolfgang Friebel's version, which already supports xz?
>
> http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html

Some reasons from the old maintainer:

  <http://bugs.debian.org/205702>

It happened I saw that it contains code from you, Vincent:

  <http://lesspipe.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lesspipe/trunk/sxw2txt?view=markup>
  
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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