[ Please don't Cc: public replies to me. ] During the recent thread on providing documentation in HTML, the need to compress it was pointed out. The compression itself is a trivial application of find, xargs, and gzip (or just gzip, of course), but that changes the files, so that links within the documentation break. Things work if you read the documentation through dwww, since dwww gives you foo.html.gz, if it exists and foo.html doesn't exist. That doesn't help if you browse the filesystem directly, and not via dwww and a web server. I hacked together a Python program that converts the links in the files themselves. It is attached. I've tried it with one of my own packages (sex), and it seems to work. Browsing the filesystem directly works, if the browser can handle gzipped files. Lynx works; Netscape 3.01 doesn't work, but I seem to recall that an earlier version did work. Someone familiar with mailcap might be able to get Netscape to work as well. Comments? -- Please read <http://www.iki.fi/liw/mail-to-lasu.html> before mailing me. Please don't Cc: public replies to me.
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