Re: [PATCH] Properly dispaying log files from /var/log

[Leonard den Ottolander <leonard den ottolander nl>]

Hello Miguel,

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 06:08, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Maybe a more solid path would be to use the `type' functionality in
> mc.ext.in to flag troff files.
> 
> Or extend the script to use `file' and if it matches `English Text' or
> does not match `troff' not treat it as a man page.

We are aware of this. We would love to use "file -z" instead of "file"
to use type for most cases, but sadly file is buggy with respect to
bzip[2] files. So we do need some work arounds until file gets fixed. A
real solution is on the TODO for 4.6.2 or 4.7.0 (maybe not written down
there yet, but discussed as such on IRC and on this list I believe).

Leonard.

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