2012/12/30 James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com>
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> That snippet (which I didn't quote) implies that some lisps uncompress
> automatically. At least, it seems, for gz.
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As far as I can remember, CLISP was not able to do that because I had the
same problem with Slackware, which some time ago was using gzip for
compressing info pages and CLISP as lisp implementation.
About that snippet, I cannot say if it implies that some lisps are able to
do uncompression, I have only tried CLISP and GCL... surely it makes the
wrong assumption that bzip2 is used, it should be able to deal also with gz
and xz, but correctly expresses the idea to decompress info pages before
installing. If some lisps are not able to read compressed files, and some
other are only capable to read gz-compressed files, that is a valid
workaround.
Stefano