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Re: gdb/485: Can't read gzip docs on a PC
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: nobody at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-prs at sources dot redhat dot com,
- Date: 15 Apr 2002 14:28:01 -0000
- Subject: Re: gdb/485: Can't read gzip docs on a PC
- Reply-to: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
The following reply was made to PR gdb/485; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: phil.mckerracher@dataflex.com
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb/485: Can't read gzip docs on a PC
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:27:05 -0400
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:09:35PM -0000, phil.mckerracher@dataflex.com wrote:
>
> >Number: 485
> >Category: gdb
> >Synopsis: Can't read gzip docs on a PC
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: non-critical
> >Priority: low
> >Responsible: unassigned
> >State: open
> >Class: doc-bug
> >Submitter-Id: net
> >Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 15 07:17:59 PDT 2002
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator: phil.mckerracher@dataflex.com
> >Release: unknown-1.0
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> Win 2000, Pentium III, lots of RAM and disc space.
> >Description:
> Some of the gzip'd doc files such as PDF version http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/onlinedocs/gdbint.pdf.gz
> appear to be faulty when I try to extract them using WinZip on a Windows PC (also tried PowerArchiver). Similarly with PS version.
>
> The HTML version http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb.html.tar.gz is OK, though. Not as easy to print!
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Download to a PC, open with WinZip 8.1. Get add files dialogue (drag and drop) or error message "invalid format" (File/Open).
Could you try renaming the invalid .pdf.gz files to .pdf, and see if
they work? Many windows browsers will transparently decompress without
changing the filename.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer