Is ".gz" archive file considered "World-Readable"?
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".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.
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
What I mean by 'World-Readable" is whether the .gz file can be used by an application ie. cups without gunzip the file.
That's not what others mean when they talk about "world readable".
"World readable" means that the permissions are o+r
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Originally Posted by NightSky
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
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