On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 12:10, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
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.
Dismaying thought. Going through the checklist: Linux is OK.
HP-UX?
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Alfie Costa wrote:
Recap: /var/log files don't view right using F3 in 'mc'. This can be
gotten around using various filters. The two attempts considered here
so far (one using the POSIX shell's '##', and the other using 'file -z')
may not work out of the box on all of
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 11:58, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
that's wrong reasoning. the claim that a shell is posix-compliant does
not imply that it does not contain non-posix extensions.
Maybe we do not agree on our terms, and if that is so then this would be
a usage question.
The HP-UX text quoted
On Thu, 29 May 2003 23:26, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
x=QuousqueTandemAbutere
echo ${x##Quousque}
/bin/sh on solaris 8: bad substitution
Thank you, kind SunOS user.
In the meantime, for those who prefer the 'file -z' way, attached is
the same patch, changed so it does it the 'file -z |
On Thu, 29 May 2003 23:26, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
[ AC's quote from Debian 'man dash' deleted... ]
according to the unix history graph
(http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html) this sentence must be at
least ten years old. ergo i would not bet on the accuracy of the rest
of the
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:10:53AM -0400, Alfie Costa wrote:
but why would BSD Debian bluff about POSIX?
because nobody bothered to update it? not that this would happen very
seldom with OSS ...
Eureka, [...]
That shell has the '##'. Therefore either Debian, BSD and HP are all
wrong
On Thu, 29 May 2003 11:31, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
yep. it's [ double hashes ] a bash-ism (or a ksh-ism, fwiw).
It came from from Korn, but it's POSIX shell syntax now.
other than that, i pretty much dislike this directory-based special-casing. i
think my suggestion with file -z (or
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:44:59PM -0400, Alfie Costa (backup address) wrote:
On 29 May 2003, at 0:09, Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe double hash used in the patch is non-portable.
I only use Linux, so all I know for sure is that double hash works on Debian,
(ash, dash,
An attempted practical fix for a longstanding bug and/or nuisance.
Earlier I posted it to a Debian buglist, but the Debian maintainer is
presently silent, so...
In 'mc', hitting F3 or 'Enter' doesn't work right for files in /var/log.
There was a thread about this on 'mc-devel' in June 2001:
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Alfie Costa wrote:
The fix is described (with a patch for '/etc/mc/mc.ext') here:
Debian Bug report logs - #179350
mc hangs viewing a .gz file
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=179350
I believe double hash used in the patch is
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:09:10AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Alfie Costa wrote:
The fix is described (with a patch for '/etc/mc/mc.ext') here:
Debian Bug report logs - #179350
mc hangs viewing a .gz file
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