Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:38:55 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:39:10PM -0400, Eric Martin wrote: Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless Because bzgrep and many others haven't been written. Shhh, don't tell my computer that! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~

[gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Hi all While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the decompressed form, hmm...? Thanks Ashish Shukla -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 19:13 +0530, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the decompressed form, hmm...? See the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Thanks Albert and Daniel for the replies. Daniel Pielmeier writes: 2008/10/30 Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now I'm wondering is there anyway to install that

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: Hi all While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the decompressed form, hmm...? why? less

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
, | % emerge --info libxcb | Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) [blah] Any ideas why PORTAGE_COMPRESS_* aren't set on my box. Because you haven't set them. Therefore they take the defaults. BTW, 'emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Eric Martin
Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless On 10/30/08, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: , | % emerge --info libxcb | Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) [blah] Any ideas why

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Iain Buchanan writes: Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: Hi all While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the decompressed form, hmm...? why? less

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Albert Hopkins writes: , | % emerge --info libxcb | Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) [blah] Any ideas why PORTAGE_COMPRESS_* aren't set on my box. Because you haven't set them. Therefore they take the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:39:10 -0400, Eric Martin wrote: Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless On HTML documentation? -- Neil Bothwick Bury a lawyer 12 feet under, because deep down they're nice. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread felix
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:39:10PM -0400, Eric Martin wrote: Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless Because bzgrep and many others haven't been written. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread felix
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:20:40AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: less /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 cat /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 | bzip2 -d cp /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 ~/; bzip2 -d ~/blah.doc.bz2 and grep? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Andrey Falko
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:20:40AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: less /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 cat /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 | bzip2 -d cp /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 ~/; bzip2 -d

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: Iain Buchanan writes: Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: Hi all While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the decompressed

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread felix
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:23:09PM -0700, Andrey Falko wrote: It does get a little annoying when you want to use grep for all files in the directory, but nothing a little for loop cannot fix: for i in /path/to/dir/*; do echo $i; bzcat $i | grep yay; done Sorry, not good enough. The disk

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:39:10PM -0400, Eric Martin wrote: Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless Because bzgrep and many others haven't been written. http://www.bzip.org/bzip2-howto/with-grep.html