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Subject: Re: [PATCH] for kdehelp & bzip2'ed man-pages/info-files (fwd)
From: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo () hooked ! net>
Date: 1999-08-20 20:35:14
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On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Peter Putzer wrote:
> It may not be a bug on your system, but it is on mine. Hell, even kernels
> (Linux- that is, so it most likely doesn't matter to you ;) are shipped
> bzip2'ed these days... so missing bzip2-support is a bug since it breaks
> Linux Mandrake (and possibly other distributions that rely on bzip2'ed
> man-/infopages)
Man pages have traditionally been compressed with compress, and on most
Linux systems, compress is gzip, since gzip can read compressed and gziped
files.
So technically this is a bug in Mandrake, not KDE.
P.S. I certianly hope you're not putting the kernel through a man page viewer.
- alex
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