on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:56:42PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman spewed forth on stone tablets:
> 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!
Most RAM problems manifest themselves during compilation, so you'd
never get through a kernel compile with bad 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.
Lynx lets you do this very conveniently.
Dan
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