Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*
Try using mc <midnight commander> . Just select the file and hit 'F3'.
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:25:25PM -0700, S. Champ wrote:
> hi.
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> i'm seeing a lot of README.*.gz in /usr/doc/*
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> i'm guessing it's been done that way for the sake of space-conservation.
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> i'm admittedly frustrated at the fact that, from all i know about it right now,
> i'll have to un-gzip any of these packages before i'm actualy able to read
> them. there's more to this life than computers, and there's already too mucy
> time needing to be spent on this thing, when it's not even out of the docks yet.
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> the question:
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> what is the command to read these README documents, without having to first use
> a command to un-gzip the same?
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> if there is no such command:
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> 1) how to read a gzipped text-document, without un-gzipping it?
> 2) these readme files are so small, why bother gzipping them and throwing
> another step into it?
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> either way:
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> if keeping the document-*zip-up..document-un*zip steps in the process:
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> can we try bzip instead, please?
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> it's got a -keep-original-archive-file argument, under a different syntax
> than that. bzip might also have a more efficient compression-algorithm than
> gzip, though i haven't done any benchmarking on it myself.
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> -- sean
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