Is ".gz" archive file considered "World-Readable"?
 

Running in Xfce, Slackware12: Is ".gz" archive file considered "world-readable"? If not do I just gunzip it? Thanks

Hi,

Not sure what you mean with "world-readable".

".gz" indeed can be uncompressed with gunzip, but there are also some ps viewers that will open ".ps.gz" files and unpcompress them on-the-fly, so you do not need to use gunzip yourself.

"ls -l filename.gz" will display the access permissions. If the output looks like

drwxr-xr-x 1 luser luser 26 2007-10-18 16:12 filename.gz

then it is world readable (the "r" in the 8th column of the permissions).

What I mean by 'World-Readable" is whether the .gz file can be used by an application ie. cups without gunzip the file. Trying to follow instructions on making a .ppd file accessible in /usr/share/cups/model
and all the files are ".gz archive files" in there. The instructions say that the file does not have to be "executable" but must be "world-readable". I don't understand that part of the instructions. Thank

That's not what others mean when they talk about "world readable".
"World readable" means that the permissions are o+r

chmod go+r file
should do the trick.



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