on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:56:42PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman spewed forth on stone tablets: > After reading your previous mail I was going to suggest that maybe you > have a corrupted bzip2, or corrupted RAM. I'm glad it's not the RAM!
Most RAM problems manifest themselves during compilation, so you'd never get through a kernel compile with bad RAM. > To answer your question about the gzipped files in /usr/share/doc > directories, I assume they are gzipped to save disk space. There are > some file managers, like mc, that let you look at gzipped text files > without gunzipping them first. Lynx lets you do this very conveniently. Dan -- Spinfire Magenta In Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hacker http://www.isomerica.net/ 31 5B 89 66 F7 E8 73 34 50 6A 79 C4 32 E1 0E 4A
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