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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: how are g/bzipped files handled ?
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-10-05 13:08:00
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:00:03PM +0200, aleXXX wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> most manpages are zipped on the disk.
> Do I have to unzip them myself in a man page part or is this already done by
> the kio framework ?

It's done by kio_man itself. It reads them using gunzip/bunzip2 if they are
compressed.

> If not it would be good to provide it, since this is probably useful for many
> kparts, e.g. text too.

That's another story (the filter architecture is there now, thanks to Waldo,
but only kio_gzip exists, and building the URL that calls it is up to the application,
it's not automated).

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