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bug of gzip 1.6

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From: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 15546-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15546: bug of gzip 1.6
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:03:06 +0100

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Hi Paul,

> Am 10.11.2014 um 19:40 schrieb Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>:
> 
> This looks like an installation problem.  'zless' is a wrapper around 'less', and won't work on platforms that don't have 'less'. There's not much that gzip can do about this, other than have 'zless'-related tests fail (which is what is happening here).

Sorry if I didn’t follow up on the whole report, but shouldn’t it then be an XFAIL
if less is missing?


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  — Dago


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