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Old 12-06-2007, 02:13 PM   #1
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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
 
Old 12-06-2007, 02:18 PM   #2
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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.
 
Old 12-06-2007, 03:52 PM   #3
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Running in Xfce, Slackware12: Is ".gz" archive file considered "world-readable"? If not do I just gunzip it? Thanks
"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).
 
Old 12-06-2007, 05:04 PM   #4
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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
 
Old 12-06-2007, 05:21 PM   #5
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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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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
chmod go+r file
should do the trick.



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