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

[Jindrich Makovicka]

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