On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:12:32AM -0400, Alfie Costa wrote: > > as mc does not automatically call file -z (or uncompresses the file > > itself), i created the wrapper /usr/local/bin/file: > > This works for you, > but how to package it? > not at all. it's a hack.
> How does this sound: somewhere in the 'mc' source it calls 'file' -- > can't we just change that so it calls 'file -z' as needed? > that's exactly what i suggested. one thing to consider is, whether all 'file's in the wild support -z or a configure check and optionally manual on-the-fly decompression would have to be done instead. > The logic would go like: > > 1) let x = `file foo` > 2) is foo compressed? Goto 4. what would these be good for? > 3) let x = `file -z foo` > 4) return x greetings -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
