as i do not have mandrake handy i cannot say.

however i _believe_ it is a compressed plain text file.

i'm pretty sure mc will view it, press f3e, or try unzipping it with
gunzip or unzip.

it gets to be quite large and is designed to be downloaded pretty
quickly, hence the compression.


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:13:16 +1300
Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Cheers for that Nick,
> 
> and I suppose that trying to get usable info out of the hdlist.cz is not 
> doable?
> 
> 
> 
> Nick Rout wrote:
> > ok got it, its genhdlist and its in the rpmtools package.
> > 
> > there is noman page but it provieds the following usage output:
> > 
> > Usage: $0 [options] [dir...]
> > Options:
> >   --help              print this message and exit
> >   --headersdir dir    put temporary files in dir
> >   --dest              build index from this dir
> >   -s                  silent mode
> >   --nobadrpm          do not stop on bad rpm
> >   --noclean           keep cache files
> >   --suffix SUFFIX     put a suffix on hdlist names
> > 
> >
> 
> -- 
> Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer
> Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept,
> University of Canterbury - Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha
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