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Date:Mon Dec 20 21:41:08 2001 
Subject:Re: Thirty years of frustration (:-/)... 
From:Pete Goodeve 
Volume-ID:1011220.01 

In article <3C21C7DF.6027@ed.ac.uk>,
Stephen Isard  <S.IsardDeleteThis@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>Can I just get clear whether the problem is that there are Linux
>distributions that lack bzip2 or whether it is that I was wrong in
>assuming that just because it is there, people are familiar with it?
>If it is the second, then perhaps Aaron could put a note by the link on
>the web page to the effect that this file has been compressed with bzip2
>(see man page).
On our Linux installation it wasn't present.  I built the system myself,
but I don't remember seeing it as an option.  I think I did notice an
RPM for it on the RedHat site among the links I found on Google, but
I simply downloaded the executable directly from the author's [I think]
site.  I had no trouble once I got that.

I don't think anything needs to be changed except to provide *some*
information as to the compression used, and perhaps where to find the
program if needed.

Cheers,
					-- Pete --