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Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?



At 14:24 Uhr +0200 14.06.2002, Ulf Rompe wrote:
Chris Gushue <chris@blackplasma.net> writes:

 I wish more things supported transparently viewing gzipped files :)

I remember there once was a library which overloaded the original libc
functions for opening files. You had to preload it by setting the
variable LD_PRELOAD to this lib (like you do with libtrash). Once you
had done that, all and every program was able to read compressed files
transparently!

OK, after searching with Google I found out that this this is in
Debian. Of course, yeah, how could I even THINK of something NOT being
part of Debian - besides XFree 4.2. :-)

zlibc - Uncompressing C Library

There's also AVFS, which can do more than just unpack gz (i.e. RPM and so on):
http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf/
http://a5.68k.org/~frederik/avfs/

Christian Jaeger (<sales_plug>using it successfully in our content management system</sales_plug>)
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