Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 10:32:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Peter Berdeklis <peter AT atmosp DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: To the INFO questions related to RHIDE 
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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> Peter Berdeklis <peter AT atmosp DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca> wrote:
> > The problem was that I patched gzip so that it created correct LFN's for 
> > the zipped files, ex. rhide.inf became rhide.inf.gz, not rhide.inz.  When 
> > you told me that RHIDE 1.1 supports gzipped info files I copied 
> > rhide.inf.gz to rhide.inz and it worked.
> > 
> > I don't want to have to rename all the gzipped libc files as well, so is 
> > there an environment variable that I can set so that it looks for the 
> > right filename extension?
> 
>   In this case the right extention is .info.gz, you are mixing a truncated 
> extention with LFN. The routines supports .info.gz because that's the real name 
> under Unix (Linux).
>   So I guess you must choose between full truncated and full LFN.

Although I agree with you that .info.gz is the right extension, the 
routine does not support it.  I tried rhide.info.gz and the routine does 
not find it.  libc.info.gz is not found either.

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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto