On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 12:10, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
one thing to consider is, whether all 'file's in the wild support -z
or a configure check and optionally manual on-the-fly decompression
would have to be done instead.
Dismaying thought. Going through the checklist: Linux is OK.
HP-UX?
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Alfie Costa wrote:
Recap: /var/log files don't view right using F3 in 'mc'. This can be
gotten around using various filters. The two attempts considered here
so far (one using the POSIX shell's '##', and the other using 'file -z')
may not work out of the box on all of
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 11:58, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
that's wrong reasoning. the claim that a shell is posix-compliant does
not imply that it does not contain non-posix extensions.
Maybe we do not agree on our terms, and if that is so then this would be
a usage question.
The HP-UX text quoted
On Thu, 29 May 2003 23:26, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
[ AC's quote from Debian 'man dash' deleted... ]
according to the unix history graph
(http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html) this sentence must be at
least ten years old. ergo i would not bet on the accuracy of the rest
of the
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:10:53AM -0400, Alfie Costa wrote:
but why would BSD Debian bluff about POSIX?
because nobody bothered to update it? not that this would happen very
seldom with OSS ...
Eureka, [...]
That shell has the '##'. Therefore either Debian, BSD and HP are all
wrong
