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by **Rod Bric** » Wed, 24 Feb 1999 04:00:00

I can't seem to get bzip2 to work with Xman. I specified .bz2 as an
extention in /usr/lib/man.config, and it works in text mode man pages.
But xman doesn't seem to know how to uncompress the file, and it prints
out gibberish. Does anyone know about xman?

Also, when using bzip2 to compress my man pages, I can't create symbolic
links to pages, ie: mail.1.bz2 -> mailx.1.bz2
This time the man utility tells me that the page does not exist when
indeed it does. This works fine with gzip.

Why am I trying to use bzip2 instead of gzip? I'm working on an old
PS/2 with 200meg drive. I'm trying to squeeze all the disk space I can
out of it.

Rod

by **Tom Phel** » Sun, 28 Feb 1999 04:00:00

I haven't tested this, but if your man pages are either bzip2
compressed or uncompressed, not a mix of bzip2 and gzip comression,
then you can trivially configure TkMan, a much better man page browser
than xman (see http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/tcltk/) to use bzip2
instead by setting a few variables in the Makefile:

zcat = "bzip -dcf"
compress = bzip
zlist = bz2

Let me know how well this works,
Tom

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making bzip2 work with xman pages

making bzip2 work with xman pages

making bzip2 work with xman pages