on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 05:12:51PM +0200, Jonathan Gift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have no trouble reading *ps.gz files using hghostview and gv under
> Mandrake, but loading ghostview and gsfonts under Debian I find myself
> unable to open *.gz ending files. I have to uncompress them to read. Any
> thoughts? Maybe a default config Mandrake used but Debian doesn't?

Try looking at what Mandrake's "gv" executable is.  Even odds says it's
a shell script wrapper which will decompress and view a compressed file.

Try:

    $ zcat foo.ps.gz > /tmp/foo.ps && gv /tmp/foo.ps

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