At 14:24 Uhr +0200 14.06.2002, Ulf Rompe wrote:
Chris Gushue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wish more things supported transparently viewing gzipped files :)
I remember there once was a library which overloaded the original libc
functions for opening files. You had to preload it by setting the
#include hallo.h
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote on Wed Jun 12, 2002 um 11:59:48PM:
links or galeon. Galeon will automatically decompress the gzipped
ones (IIRC).
Wrong. Netscape 4.x did, Mozilla and Galeon do not.
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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Chris Gushue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wish more things supported transparently viewing gzipped files :)
I remember there once was a library which overloaded the original libc
functions for opening files. You had to preload it by setting the
variable LD_PRELOAD to this lib (like you do with
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
| Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format.
Nicely compressed to conserve your disk space :-).
| What does Joe Average do to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and
| over?
I don't know, I'm not Joe Average. (some people call me
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't
compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6
automatically decompresses .gz files).
I'm pretty sure that Vim 5.x (5.6? 5.7?) did in Debian as well. I wish
more things supported
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do
to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course
uses emacs' dired's v with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be
ideal. However then one
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:00, Chris Gushue wrote:
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't
compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6
automatically decompresses .gz files).
I'm pretty sure that Vim 5.x (5.6? 5.7?)
I put ' LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s ' in /etc/profile, and less
will transparently unzip and display the file.
Does debian ship /usr/bin/lesspipe? In what package? I always have
it set to LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s and it finds ~/bin/lesspipe.sh in
my home directory.
Bob
On 0, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I put ' LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s ' in /etc/profile, and less
will transparently unzip and display the file.
Does debian ship /usr/bin/lesspipe? In what package? I always have
it set to LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s and it finds
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do
to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course
uses emacs' dired's v with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be
ideal. However then one
Does debian ship /usr/bin/lesspipe? In what package? I always have
[...]
# dpkg -S /usr/bin/lesspipe
less: /usr/bin/lesspipe
There you go. In woody, at least.
I must have been blind because I see it now too. In any case the
installation of less includes a debconf that says this:
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do
to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over?
$ mc
point and F3
mc is selected by tasksel with newbie option.
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do
to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course
uses emacs' dired's v with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be
ideal. However then one
Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3
ya cant live without it :)
-Matt
- Original Message -
From: Brian Potkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless
Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3
ya cant live without it :)
I can't ;-) does anyone know an X alternative to it? imho, gmc is not
worth being called the gnome mc, and xnc is't too user-friendly either.
The ultimate graphical file manager for me would look like
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:10:31PM +0200, Joris wrote:
Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3
ya cant live without it :)
I can't ;-) does anyone know an X alternative to it? imho, gmc is not
worth being called the gnome mc, and xnc is't too
Joris([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3
ya cant live without it :)
I can't ;-) does anyone know an X alternative to it? imho, gmc is not
worth being called the gnome mc, and xnc is't too user-friendly either.
Have you
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:08:25PM +1000, Matt Chipman wrote:
Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3
ya cant live without it :)
I have mc running permanently on one virtual terminal and use it
frequently so I wouldn't dream of challenging your second statement.
Pressing F3
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:23:23PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote:
| On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:00, Chris Gushue wrote:
| Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't
| compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6
|
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:43:59AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:23:23PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote:
| I'd say I'm pretty much joe average: emacs isn't even on my system, and
| after two years of using linux I still don't know how to cut and paste
| in vim :)
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