"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> >>     find . -name \*.gz | xargs gunzip
> 
> >Of course, if he did this, he shouldn't expect the system to
> >upgrade cleanly anymore, and worse, remocving the packages won't
> >delete the uncompressed files.
> 
>     Hey, his system, he wants to mangle it instead of learning zless, zmore,
> zgrep, etc, that's his perogative.  I'm only more than happy to help him
> along.  ;)

It would be nice if the package system supported something like this
(i.e. would consider both the normal and the gz version as part of the 
package). Not all formats have "zxxx" equivalents yet (dvi comes to
mind).

Jan

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