RE: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive

[Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 4:49 PM
> To: Bernard Dautrevaux; 'gerrit.haase@t-online.de'; Corinna Vinschen
> Subject: RE: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive
> 
> 
> --- Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux@microprocess.com> wrote:
> > Why not switch to the quite common ".tgz" suffix instead of 
> .tar.gz" and
> > replace dots in release numbers by underscores? this could 
> be done almost
> > unambiguously (at least as long as package names do not 
> contain '-'):
> > 
> 
> Yuck!!  Not worth it.
> 
> > 
> > Thus all favorite download tools will be happy with th 
> efiles to download
> > (and we even can look at the content of it with winzip... I 
> know there is
> > problems with using winzip to install, although I don't 
> know which ones, but
> > looking at the archive content should be OK).
> > 
> 
> `tar -ztf foo.tar.gz | less' will list the contents of the 
> archive and allow
> you to page back and forth.  What more could you ask for?


Simple sorting options, just a click away, like sort by name, path, date of
modification etc, without always remembering in the fingers the exact set of
options to pass to sort to get the desired result :-)

Seriously, even if I LOVE the unix way of doing things, I must admit that
ckicking here and there on usual places to get often needed results is quite
convenient.

	Bernard

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