How do you read doc in gz format ??

ikshaar

Hi,

It's stupid for sure :roll:

but my problem is : I installed afsdoc, documentation for openafs, and the only thing installed is *.gz files in /usr/share/doc. How do I read them ? I tried man, yelp, info...nothing worked...

Any ideas ??
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Oopsz · Guru Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 340

zless textfile.gz

ikshaar · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 5:35 pm Post subject:

But it's not only one file, it's a complete structure, with directory, images, etc...

popopo_ · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2003 Posts: 21

Various programs have built-in support for .gz files.
Just try vi (vim, gvim, etc...), or less (no need for zless). I guess it works also for emacs.

edit : you can also gunzip *.gz of course

ikshaar · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 5:50 pm Post subject:

There is directory and subdirectories... so I don't think this is the best way to do... besides, if the ebuild does not unpack help for such package and you cannot read without doing so, there is a serious logic problem here for the guy who wrote that ebuild...
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tlauder · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 10

Edited out as this wasn't the place to post it.

Try the --recursive option to gunzip

ikshaar · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 7:17 pm Post subject:

(no comment on the rant here)

afsdoc is pure documentation. So if you emerge it, you probably intend to read it.

you may be right for the space, but gunzip will not work on subdirectory so the method to unzip all the doc is not straighforward. Therefore, my point remains true.
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DefconAlpha · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 7:18 pm Post subject: gunzip doc viewing