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From: mikew@tahoe.unr.edu (Mike Wishart)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: less5 - 2 fixes and an enhancement...
Message-ID: <1661@tahoe.unr.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 88 00:56:09 GMT
References: <1396@zen.co.uk> <12247@steinmetz.ge.com> <198@ispi.UUCP>
Organization: University of Nevada-Reno
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In article <198@ispi.UUCP>, jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet) writes:
! In article <12247@steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
! 
! As the summary states: K(eep)  I(t) S(imple) S(tupid).  In other words,  I am
! in full agreement to keep the decompression stuff out of less.
! 

Why?  The decompression stuff is transparent and so much easier than having
to uncompress the file before reading or piping it through zcat (If your
system has it).  It's great,  I keep docs compressed now so that I can
read them whenever and not worry about them taking up bouco space.

Maybe a switch in the makefile (I believe it's there, if you don't want
it you can use a -DNO_JULES <I think>, maybe change it to NO_DECO for
better understanding).
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