>>John Foster wrote: >On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > >> > > This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about th >e >> > > .gz?? >> > ><<snip>> >> (Funny how an non-Debian specific question still generates so many >> responses on this list!) > >Not really. What we have here is a real problem for the newbies. > >To access the documentation you really need to be able to access >the documentation. Then you can determine what is (and isn't) a Debian >specific issue. Having a system which can hold the newbies' hand till >they can walk for themselves has probably never been a design goal for >Debian, but I think that the user base is growing at such a rate that >it could be time... > >Perhaps there should be a quick intro to gzip, zless and zcat in the >opening scripts (just after the first dselect run?).
Even better, a quick intro to mc (and make mc a standard admin package.) Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .