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

François Pinard pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Oct 2 20:39:41 EDT 2003


[Jack Jansen]
> .Z files were still very useful to some people long after .gz had
> become the norm, just because they were stuck on old boxes.

Do anybody remember `.z' files?  (`pack' and `unpack' were the tools,
unless I'm mistaken).

I'm _not_ suggesting that they get supported :-).  Despite `.Z' is not
as old as `.z', they are not very far, once added some perspective.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard



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