Re: Changelog files
On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 12:30:26AM +0100, Juan Cespedes wrote:
> > - I have 486 machines here where a gzip invocation causes a delay. I prefer small files (and
> > that means most files since most files are small) to be uncompressed. Speed is a major
> > issue on those machines.
>
> How often do you examine changelogs in those machines?
>
> Are you sure it's quicker to do `ls' first to know how that
> changelog is named, and after `less', that to always do `zless'?
You can use zless on non-compressed files, and you can use filename
completion to get the filename. Or you can configure your lesspipe
script to automatically decompress files.
OTOH, I don't really mind either way, just thought I would point these
things out.
hamish
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