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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> I read MANIFEST.gz with zless.  Is there some similar way to read a 
> .bz2 file?  I suppose you could bunzip2 then gzip the result to get 
> a .gz again.

bunzip2 -c MANIFEST.bz2 | less

would work. You could probably put 

#!/bin/sh
bunzip2 -c "$@" | less

in /usr/bin/bzless (or something like that) if you don't want to type
that in all the time. Some packages of less probably come with the
bzless script.

> I see that bunzip2 is part of busybox - is it lacking any features 
> that we would notice?

There's no bzip2, so you can only read bz2 files. The busybox bunzip2
should uncompress every ordinary bz2, though.

David
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