Re: A fix for the F3 /var/log bug...

[Jindrich Makovicka <makovick kmlinux fjfi cvut cz>]

Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:09:10AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 28 May 2003, Alfie Costa wrote:
> >
> >
> > > The fix is described (with a patch for '/etc/mc/mc.ext') here:
> > >
> > > 	Debian Bug report logs - #179350
> > > 	mc hangs viewing a .gz file
> > > 	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=179350
> >
> > I believe double hash used in the patch is non-portable.
>
> yep. it's a bash-ism (or a ksh-ism, fwiw).
> other than that, i pretty much dislike this directory-based
> special-casing. i think my suggestion with "file -z" (or equivalent) is
> much cleaner.
>
> greetings

btw, nroff "hangs" on binary files because it refuses to proceed further 
until somebody reads its stderr, which mc doesn't do during reading its 
stdout. i personally prefer to append "2> /dev/null" after actions 
containing nroff in my mc.ext, after which i see malformed file 
contents, but at least mc doesn't freeze.

--
Jindrich Makovicka