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[sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>]

I thought xpdf 2.02 would be  better than xpdf 0.90 (bug fixes) and
I assumed the packages were similar in size. 
What makes the package at foo.labs so huge?

> > I downloaded xpdf (from foo.labs), 6M 
> 
> The xpdf package in Slackware 7.1 is 682kb.
> 

Thanks for this useful information.
Can I look for individual files online with lynx or links,
without needing to download MANIFEST.gz first?


> You've got them already.  The first place to look for 
> BL2 add-ons is Slackware 7.1.  If you had done a search 
> on MANIFEST.gz, you would have found pdftotext (etc.) 
> immediately.  You don't even need to gunzip MANIFEST.gz  
> ---------------------------------
> zcat MANIFEST.gz | grep pdftotext
> ---------------------------------
> Or, if you have installed the less.tgz package (used 
> by 'man' to display manpages), you can do:
> -----------------
> zless MANIFEST.gz    (then press / to search)
> -----------------
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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