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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] xpdf / pdftotext
  • Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:01:20 -0400 (EDT)


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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  • Re: [BL] xpdf / pdftotext, sindi keesan, 04/30/2003

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