Compressed ppd files (*.ppd.gz) are not displayed as text but as binary
callegar opened this issue · 3 comments
Would be handy to be able to see ppd (postscript printer description) files as text.
All my tests show, that this is handled properly. I only can imagine a system with a broken file cmd (what does file and file -i report) or the unlikely case that gzip is not available on the system
The issue does not appear to be the .gz (gzipped text .txt.gz files are handled properly), but the fact that this is a gzipped ppd file. Maybe the report from file is not dealt with correctly.
on the ppd.gz, file reports /usr/share/ppd/HP/hp-tango.ppd.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 27878 and file -i gives /usr/share/ppd/HP/hp-tango.ppd.gz: application/gzip; charset=binary... But maybe the issue is what file reports on the uncompressed ppd, that is PPD file, version "4.3" and text/plain; charset=us-ascii
I downloaded hplip-3.21.12.tar.gz and with the version 2.00 lesspipe.sh I could both display the contents of the unpacked hplip-3.21.12/ppd/hpcups/hp-tango.ppd.gz as well as directly from the archive:
hplip-3.21.12.tar.gz:hplip-3.21.12/ppd/hpcups/hp-tango.ppd.gz
There might have been an issue with earlier versions of lesspipe.sh