On the advice of Derek Noonburg, a simple symbolic link cured this problem and PDFs are now decomprssing correctly. ln -s gunzip uncompress Bill Worthington > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gilles > Detillieux > Sent: 27 July 2001 19:20 > To: Bill Worthington > Cc: "Htdig mailing list (E-mail)" > Subject: Re: [htdig] sh: uncompress: command not found > > > According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > RE: > > htdig v3.1.5 > > xpdf v0.92 > > doc2html v3 > > redhat linux 5 and 6 (on cobalt raq3 and raq4r) > > > > in the transcript produced by 'doc2html' I get quite a few > lines which say: > > > > sh: uncompress: command not found > > > > I am assuming the compressed parts of PDF files contain > images and therefore > > don't need to be indexed. > > > > Is this a safe assumption? > > I don't know for sure, but I don't think so. I thought compressed > PDFs had more than just the images compressed. xpdf and pdftohtml > need an uncompress program in order to handle compressed PDFs > properly. > On Red Hat Linux, the compress and uncompress programs are part of the > "ncompress" package, which is normally installed by default. > > -- > Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
