[Doc-SIG] Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation packages

[Michael Hudson]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

>     Barry> What I don't know is whether bz2 decompression is generally
>     Barry> available on MacOSX...
>
> Fink is your friend:
>
>     % type bzip2
>     bzip2 is /sw/bin/bzip2
>
> so, no, it's not standard on Mac OS X.

Just because fink supplies something doesn't mean it didn't come with
the base install.  Jaguar has bzip2 installed; I don't think 10.1 did.

Cheers,
mwh

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