Re: .gz ??? what, how?
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > > This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about the
> > > .gz??
> >
<<snip>>
> (Funny how an non-Debian specific question still generates so many
> responses on this list!)
Not really. What we have here is a real problem for the newbies.
To access the documentation you really need to be able to access
the documentation. Then you can determine what is (and isn't) a Debian
specific issue. Having a system which can hold the newbies' hand till
they can walk for themselves has probably never been a design goal for
Debian, but I think that the user base is growing at such a rate that
it could be time...
Perhaps there should be a quick intro to gzip, zless and zcat in the
opening scripts (just after the first dselect run?).
John Foster
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