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Re: [BL] BL3 links won't read .html.gz

From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 links won't read .html.gz
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 23:39:39 -0500 (EST)

> > but when I follow the link at his BL3 sites to linux textbook
> > (/index.html.gz) I get 17 pages of 7-bit characters, which
> > is unreadable
>
> As you have noted, files ending in .gz are passed to zless.
> zless does not have HTML-display capabity.
>
> > I can access this link with lynx and read 41 pages of linux
> > lessons.
>
> I assume that is because lynx handles the process internally,
> rather than passing it to zless.

I presume we would have to download index.html.gz and then read it as a
local file with lynx, after gunzipping it?

It is nice to have a choice of browsers, because they each do
something better. And with linux you can use both at once.
Links for tables or writing in forms, lynx for ssl or html.gz.

>
> Cheers,
> Steven
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[BL] BL3 links won't read .html.gz, keesan, 03/20/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 links won't read .html.gz, 3aoo-cvfd, 03/20/2004
  - Re: [BL] BL3 links won't read .html.gz, Sindi Keesan, 03/20/2004