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

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

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

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