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

Wed Oct 1 20:37:46 EDT 2003

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Wed, 2003年10月01日 at 16:24, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
>>>>Interesting; I don't recall the last time I had to build my own
>>bzip2. I'm pretty sure I didn't do anything special to get it on
>>RedHat recently. 
>>> No, I'm sure you didn't. bzip2 decompression should be standard on RH9,
> and there's even a tar option to read and write it. 

Considering RH hosts the bzip2 site I would hope you could build on 
their OS. =)
> What I don't know
> is whether bz2 decompression is generally available on MacOSX...
>
It is; StuffIt can decompress it. I just downloaded the GNU Info docs 
and had no problem with double-clicking the file and decompressing.
-Brett